CVE-2024-48910 (GCVE-0-2024-48910)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-31 14:22 – Updated: 2025-11-03 20:41
VLAI
Title
DOMPurify vulnerable to tampering by prototype polution
Summary
DOMPurify is a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify was vulnerable to prototype pollution. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.2.
Severity
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-10-31 15:52 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1321 - Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
cure53 DOMPurify Affected: < 2.4.2
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cure53 dompurify Affected: 0 , < 2.4.2 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:cure53:dompurify:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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