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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2022-37616 json

Withdrawn: Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution') in @xmldom/xmldom and xmldom

published 2022-10-11 4 y ago modified 2026-07-08 4 mo ago also GHSA-9pgh-qqpf-7wqj , EUVD-2022-7067

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A prototype pollution vulnerability exists in the function copy in dom.js in the xmldom (published as @xmldom/xmldom) package before 0.8.3 for Node.js via the p variable. NOTE: the vendor states "we are in the process of marking this report as invalid"; however, some third parties takes the position that "A prototype injection/Prototype pollution is not just when global objects are polluted with recursive merge or deep cloning but also when a target object is polluted."

Patch / fix

  • xmldom_project xmldom 0.7.6, 0.8.3
  • node-xmldom Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.8.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37616

  • node-xmldom Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1
  • node-xmldom Ubuntu 22.04 LTS 0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37616

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • python-tensorboard Azure Linux 3.0 2.16.2-1

azure linux advisories AZL-38290

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-2022-37616 updated cvss 9.8

xmldom: a prototype pollution vulnerability exists in the function copy in dom.js

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

2.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

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

References

Sources

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