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CVE-2021-22931

9.8 criticalEPSS 22%

Critical (9.8). EPSS 22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Node.js before 16.6.0, 14.17.4, and 12.22.4 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution, XSS, Application crashes due to missing input validation of host names returned by Domain Name Servers in Node.js dns library which can lead to output of wrong hostnames (leading to Domain Hijacking) and injection vulnerabilities in applications using the library.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
22% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs
CWE-20, CWE-170
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

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