Security advisory

{
  "id": "d4475cad905668479e8ca484ef072a2a16cde4dabbf09b5cfacf19d9d77ae165",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28502",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-28502",
    "summary": "This affects the package xmlhttprequest before 1.7.0; all versions of package xmlhttprequest-ssl. 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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-28502",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-28502",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-28502",
        "GHSA-h4j5-c7cj-74xg"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/driverdan/node-xmlhttprequest",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "17b03f96faa6ab3d3b3517707173d5d6a3bb253c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:xmlhttprequest_project:xmlhttprequest:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.7.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "1.6.0",
            "1.5.0",
            "1.4.2",
            "1.4.1",
            "1.4.0",
            "1.3.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-28502.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:18.311411350Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/driverdan/node-XMLHttpRequest/blob/1.6.0/lib/XMLHttpRequest.js%23L480",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082937",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1082938",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUEST-1082935",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-XMLHTTPREQUESTSSL-1082936"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-28502",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429745,
  "published_at": "2021-03-05T18:15:12.83+00:00"
}