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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2020-28458 json

Prototype Pollution

published 2020-12-16 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-m7j4-fhg6-xf5v , EUVD-2020-1499

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.7%
EPSS 3.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

All versions of package datatables.net are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution due to an incomplete fix for https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-598806.

Patch / fix

  • npm datatables.net 1.10.22
  • datatables datatables.net 1.10.23
  • rhvm rhev manager 4.4 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine rhev manager 4.4 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev
  • ovirt-web-ui rhev manager 4.4 1.6.7-1.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-setup rhev manager 4.4 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-tools rhev manager 4.4 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-backend rhev manager 4.4 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-restapi rhev manager 4.4 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev
  • ovirt-engine-dbscripts rhev manager 4.4 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev

red hat advisories RHSA-2021:1169RHSA-2021:1186RHSA-2021:1184

  • reaper CBL-Mariner 2.0 3.1.1-15

azure linux advisories AZL-53184

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-28458 updated cvss 7.3

datatables.net: prototype pollution if 'constructor' were used in a data property name

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1 kiali
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-console Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 keycloak-theme keycloak-theme
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts cockpit-ovirt 0.14.20-1.el8ev, cockpit-ovirt-dashboard 0.14.20-1.el8ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1184
  • Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 ovirt-web-ui 1.6.7-1.el8ev, ovirt-engine-ui-extensions 1.2.5-1.el8ev
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:1186
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4 Hypervisor for RHEL 8 vdsm 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-api 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-http 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-client 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-common 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-python 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, +17 more Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts vdsm 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, ovirt-host 4.4.5-1.el8ev, vdsm-api 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-http 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-client 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, vdsm-common 4.40.50.8-1.el8ev, +21 more Red Hat RHEL-8-RHEV-S-4.4 - Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4 rhvm 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev, rhvm 4.4.5.11-0.1.el8ev, apache-sshd 2.6.0-1.el8ev, ovirt-web-ui 1.6.8-1.el8ev, ansible-runner 1.4.6-2.el8ar, ovirt-engine 4.4.5.9-0.1.el8ev, +43 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-598806 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm datatables.net
<1.10.22
1.10.22

Affected products

  • n/a datatables.net

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.