{
    "id": "CVE-2022-37601",
    "published": "2022-10-12 20:15:11",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 04:55:08",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-1321",
    "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.",
    "epss_score": "0.03503",
    "epss_percentile": "0.88864",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-09 18:17:32",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 3,
        "label": "In your normal cycle",
        "why": "Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "debian",
            "product": "debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "webpack.js",
            "product": "loader-utils"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "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"
    ]
}