Critical severity · published Oct 12, 2022
CVE-2022-37601
Prototype pollution vulnerability in function parseQuery in parseQuery.js in webpack loader-utils via the name variable in parseQuery.js
9.8
CVSS
3.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Prototype pollution vulnerability in function parseQuery in parseQuery.js in webpack loader-utils via the name variable in parseQuery.js. This affects all versions prior to 1.4.1 and 2.0.3.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.5% · higher than 89% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
LO
Loader-utils · Webpack.js
before 1.4.1; 2.0.0 before 2.0.3 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37601
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-37601
Technical Description
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf
Technical Description
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769
Technical Description
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769
Product
https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L11
Product
https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L47
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212
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