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🛡️ GHSA-236c-vhj4-gfxg — ua-parser-js (CVE-2021-4229)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-829 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Duplicate Advisory: Embedded malware in ua-parser-js

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-pjwm-rvh2-c87w. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

A vulnerability was found in ua-parser-js 0.7.29/0.8.0/1.0.0. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the crypto mining component which introduces a backdoor. Upgrading to version 0.7.30, 0.8.1 and 1.0.1 is able to address this issue. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

GHSA-236c-vhj4-gfxg is classified as CWE-829: Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere. Code is loaded from a source outside the product's control, so that source can change what runs.

Affected software

GHSA-236c-vhj4-gfxg is recorded against 1 package.

  • ua-parser-js

Timeline and source

Published on 25 May 2022 and last revised on 22 February 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Advisory)
vuldb.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-829
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-25
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-02-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ua-parser-js — —

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