CVE-2022-37601 - Denial of Service (DoS)

Abstract

The loader-utils package is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. The parseQuery() function in the parseQuery.js file allows for modification of object prototypes via the name variable. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to override the behavior of object prototypes, which may result in a Denial of Service (DoS) condition, Remote Code Execution (RCE), or other unexpected behavior.

The Oxygen products incorporate loader-utils as a third-party library. This advisory was opened to address the potential impact of this third-party library vulnerability.

Affected Products/Versions

Mitigation

None

Detail

CVE-2022-37601

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

The loader-utils third-party library used by Oxygen XML products is an affected version mentioned in CVE-2022-37601 vulnerability description. However, Oxygen XML products does not use server-side JavaScript to handle JSON content received as payload on REST requests. For that reason, Oxygen XML products are not affected by this vulnerability.

Starting with Oxygen Feedback v2.1.4 build 2022111716 loader-utils library was updated to fix this vulnerability.