CVE-2022-37601
9.8
CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 3.5% (pctl 89)
In your normal cycle
Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 3.5% — more likely to be exploited than 89% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-1321 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2022-10-12 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-17 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| debian | debian linux |
| webpack.js | loader-utils |
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
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212#issuecomment-1319192884
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00044.html
- 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
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212
- https://github.com/webpack/loader-utils/issues/212#issuecomment-1319192884
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/issues/436#issuecomment-1319412826
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00044.html
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