CVE-2021-31597
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Improper Certificate Validation in xmlhttprequest-ssl
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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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 withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | xmlhttprequest-ssl | <1.6.1 | 1.6.1 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-31597
- https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/bf53329b61ca6afc5d28f6b8d2dc2e3ca740a9b2
- https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/compare/v1.6.0...1.6.1
- https://people.kingsds.network/wesgarland/xmlhttprequest-ssl-vuln.txt
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210618-0004
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.