CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-37601
Critical (9.8). EPSS 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in loader-utils 1.4.1, 2.0.3.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-1321
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- webpack.js:loader-utils
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-76p3-8jx3-jpfq | npm | loader-utils | >=2.0.0 <2.0.3 | 2.0.3 |
| GHSA-76p3-8jx3-jpfq | npm | loader-utils | <1.4.1 | 1.4.1 |
References
- http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~mmannan/publications/JS-vulnerability-aisaccs2022.pdf
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3488932.3497769
- https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3488932.3497769
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L11
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/blob/d9f4e23cf411d8556f8bac2d3bf05a6e0103b568/lib/parseQuery.js#L47