CVE-2020-28502 (GCVE-0-2020-28502)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-05 17:25 – Updated: 2024-09-16 22:55
VLAI
Title
Arbitrary Code Injection
Summary
This affects the package xmlhttprequest before 1.7.0; all versions of package xmlhttprequest-ssl. Provided requests are sent synchronously (async=False on xhr.open), malicious user input flowing into xhr.send could result in arbitrary code being injected and run.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CWE
  • Arbitrary Code Injection
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a xmlhttprequest Affected: unspecified , < 1.7.0 (custom)
n/a xmlhttprequest-ssl Affected: 0 , < unspecified (custom)
Date Public
2021-03-05 00:00
Credits
rinsuki
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