CVE-2020-28495Prototype Pollution
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.9% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
This affects the package total.js before 3.4.7. The set function can be used to set a value into the object according to the path. However the keys of the path being set are not properly sanitized, leading to a prototype pollution vulnerability. The impact depends on the application. In some cases it is possible to achieve Denial of service (DoS), Remote Code Execution or Property Injection.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 3 months later
· 3 months 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/E:P/RL:O/RC:C |
| 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)
- 3.8% · top 9.9% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Affected products
total.js
- affected unspecified – < 3.4.7
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmtotal.jsGHSA-6cf8-qhqj-vjqm (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TOTALJS-1046671 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://docs.totaljs.com/latest/en.html%23api~FrameworkUtils~U.set (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/totaljs/framework/blob/master/utils.js%23L6606 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/totaljs/framework/blob/master/utils.js%23L6617 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/totaljs/framework/commit/b3f901561d66ab799a4a99279893b94cad7ae4ff (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2021-0536 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-6cf8-qhqj-vjqm (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-28495)Record last updated .