Vulnerability · Published Sep 20, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-37265

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity prototype pollution in the steal package (npm). There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.6% (higher than 76% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.6%top 23.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Prototype pollution vulnerability in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the alias variable in babel.js.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
npm	steal	no fix listed	GHSA-wc4x-qmr2-rj8h

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

Weakness: CWE-1321 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

https://github.com/stealjs/steal/blob/c9dd1eb19ed3f97aeb93cf9dcea5d68ad5d0ced9/ext/babel.js#L4216 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/stealjs/steal/blob/c9dd1eb19ed3f97aeb93cf9dcea5d68ad5d0ced9/ext/babel.js#L4569 x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/stealjs/steal/issues/1534 x_refsource_MISC