CVE-2020-5259
Prototype Pollution in Dojox
- Published
- Updated
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- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
In affected versions of dojox (NPM package), the jqMix method is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution. Prototype Pollution refers to the ability to inject properties into existing JavaScript language construct prototypes, such as objects. An attacker manipulates these attributes to overwrite, or pollute, a JavaScript application object prototype of the base object by injecting other values. This has been patched in versions 1.11.10, 1.12.8, 1.13.7, 1.14.6, 1.15.3 and 1.16.2
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.0% · top 19% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.7.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (3)
- https://github.com/dojo/dojox/security/advisories/GHSA-3hw5-q855-g6cw (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/dojo/dojox/commit/47d1b302b5b23d94e875b77b9b9a8c4f5622c9da (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200311 [SECURITY] [DLA 2139-1] dojo security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3hw5-q855-g6cw (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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