VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-37616

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability2.13%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-10-11
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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."

Weakness classification

  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-1321

Primary references