critical
CVE-2022-37616
A prototype pollution vulnerability exists in the function copy in dom ...
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Azure Linux. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).
Description
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."
Affected packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Linux 3.0 | python-tensorboard | 0:2.16.2-1.azl3 |
| debian 10 | node-xmldom | 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u1 |
| debian 11 | node-xmldom | 0.5.0-1+deb11u1 |
| debian 12 | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| debian 13 | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| debian 14 | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| echo | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 20.04 | node-xmldom | 0:0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 22.04 | node-xmldom | 0:0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 24.04 | node-xmldom | 0:0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.04 | node-xmldom | 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.04-ESM | node-xmldom | 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1 |
Show all 14 entries from 14 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Linux 3.0 | python-tensorboard | 0:2.16.2-1.azl3 |
| debian 10 | node-xmldom | 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u1 |
| debian 11 | node-xmldom | 0.5.0-1+deb11u1 |
| debian 12 | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| debian 13 | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| debian 14 | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| echo | node-xmldom | 0.8.3-1 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 20.04 | node-xmldom | 0:0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 22.04 | node-xmldom | 0:0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| rapidfort ubuntu 24.04 | node-xmldom | 0:0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.04 | node-xmldom | 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1 |
| ubuntu 20.04-ESM | node-xmldom | 0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1 |
| ubuntu 22.04 | node-xmldom | 0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1 |
| ubuntu 22.10 | node-xmldom | 0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.10.1 |
References
- http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L1
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L3
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1327776560
All 14 references
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/437
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-9pgh-qqpf-7wqj
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00023.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37616
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6102-1
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37616