CVE-2020-7720

unknown

Published 2020-09-14 · Modified 2025-01-14

💬 Discuss on Community ✚ Propose mitigation

CVSS v3

—

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4 NEW

—

not yet in upstream

VIR risk

—

Description

The package node-forge before 0.10.0 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via the util.setPath function. Note: Version 0.10.0 is a breaking change removing the vulnerable functions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact

Debian Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
bullseye	Fixed	`0.10.0~dfsg-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
npm	node-forge	`<0.10.0`	`0.10.0`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.