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🛡️ GHSA-f4c9-cqv8-9v98 — jsdom (CVE-2021-20066)

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1220 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Withdrawn Advisory: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control in JSDom

# Withdrawn Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because the user must configure jsdom to allow access to local files.

# Original Description

JSDom improperly allows the loading of local resources, which allows for local files to be manipulated by a malicious web page when script execution is enabled.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

GHSA-f4c9-cqv8-9v98 is classified as CWE-1220: Insufficient Granularity of Access Control. The product implements access controls via a policy or other feature with the intention to disable or restrict accesses (reads and/or writes) to assets in a system from untrusted agents.

Affected software

GHSA-f4c9-cqv8-9v98 is recorded against 1 package.

  • jsdom

Timeline and source

Published on 24 May 2022 and last revised on 19 July 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
security.snyk.io (Web)
www.tenable.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-1220
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-24
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2024-07-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
jsdom — —

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