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critical 9.8

CVE-2020-28282 json

Prototype pollution in getobject

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-957j-59c2-j692 , EUVD-2021-2181

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.2%
EPSS 4.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Prototype pollution vulnerability in 'getobject' version 0.1.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and may lead to remote code execution.

Patch / fix

  • npm getobject 1.0.0
  • node-getobject Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28282

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-28282 updated cvss 9.8

nodejs-getobject: Prototype pollution could result in DoS and RCE

  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 1 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-grafana-prometheus Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-grafana-prometheus
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/cowboy/node-getobject/blob/aba04a8e1d6180eb39eff09990c3a43886ba8937/lib/getobject.js#L48 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • whitesourcesoftware.com https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-28282 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm getobject
<1.0.0
1.0.0

Affected products

  • n/a getobject

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes

References

Sources

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