Security advisory

{
  "id": "bbb0a631ddda5d33971fb52defb2936d9d68e52cd9b18516ffc51d9d4330f736",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-16772",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2019-16772",
    "summary": "The serialize-to-js NPM package before version 3.0.1 is vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS). It does not properly mitigate against unsafe characters in serialized regular expressions. This vulnerability is not affected on Node.js environment since Node.js's implementation of RegExp.prototype.toString() backslash-escapes all forward slashes in regular expressions. If serialized data of regular expression objects are used in an environment other than Node.js, it is affected by this vulnerability.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-16772",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2019-16772",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2019-16772",
        "GHSA-3fjq-93xj-3f3f"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/commenthol/serialize-to-js",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "89c82a8d993c122834597f620c50c11a3798500d"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "181d7d583ae5293cd47cc99b14ad13352875f3e3"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:serialize-to-js_project:serialize-to-js:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.0.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "181d7d583ae5293cd47cc99b14ad13352875f3e3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v3.0.0",
            "v2.0.1",
            "v2.0.0",
            "v1.2.2",
            "v1.2.1",
            "v1.2.0",
            "v1.1.2",
            "v1.1.1",
            "v1.1.0",
            "v1.0.0",
            "v0.5.0",
            "v0.4.0",
            "v0.3.1",
            "v0.3.0",
            "v0.2.0",
            "v0.1.2",
            "v0.1.1",
            "v0.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16772.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:47.442694904Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/commenthol/serialize-to-js/security/advisories/GHSA-3fjq-93xj-3f3f",
        "https://github.com/commenthol/serialize-to-js/commit/181d7d583ae5293cd47cc99b14ad13352875f3e3"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2019-16772",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382155,
  "published_at": "2019-12-07T00:15:11.09+00:00"
}