{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37616","details":"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.\"","modified":"2026-01-30T02:40:29.631096Z","published":"2022-10-11T05:15:00Z","related":["USN-6102-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2022-37616"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-37616"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/blob/bc36efddf9948aba15618f85dc1addfc2ac9d7b2/lib/dom.js#L3"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/437"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-9pgh-qqpf-7wqj"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6102-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37616"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"node-xmldom","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-xmldom@0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1"}]}],"versions":["0.1.27+ds-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"node-xmldom","binary_version":"0.1.27+ds-1+deb10u2build0.20.04.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37616.json"}},{"package":{"name":"node-xmldom","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-xmldom@0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1?arch=source&distro=jammy"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1"}]}],"versions":["0.5.0-1","0.7.3-1","0.7.5-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"node-xmldom","binary_version":"0.7.5-1ubuntu0.22.04.1"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-37616.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}