CVE-2021-4229 (GCVE-0-2021-4229)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-24 15:30 – Updated: 2025-04-15 14:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
ua-parser-js Crypto Mining backdoor
Summary
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Severity
5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-04-14 17:14 UTC
CWE
- CWE-912 - Backdoor
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjwm-rvh2-c87w | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://vuldb.com/?id.185453 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unspecified | ua-parser-js |
Affected:
0.7.29
Affected: 0.8.0 Affected: 1.0.0 |
guessed |
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
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model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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