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CVE-2020-28458Prototype Pollution
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 3.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 10% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
All versions of package datatables.net are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution due to an incomplete fix for https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-598806.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 34 days later
· 34 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.7% · top 10% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
datatables.net
- affected < unspecified
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmdatatables.netGHSA-m7j4-fhg6-xf5v (opens in a new tab)
References
References7
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-1016402 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1051961 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1051962 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables/blob/master/js/jquery.dataTables.js%23L2766 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/commit/a51cbe99fd3d02aa5582f97d4af1615d11a1ea03 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-598806 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0006/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-1499 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m7j4-fhg6-xf5v (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-28458)Record last updated .