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CVE-2020-7768Prototype Pollution
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The package grpc before 1.24.4; the package @grpc/grpc-js before 1.1.8 are vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via loadPackageDefinition.
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 10 months later
· 10 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 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:O/RC:C |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.0% · top 9.3% 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 7.5.
Affected products
grpc
- affected unspecified – < 1.24.4
@grpc/grpc-js
- affected unspecified – < 1.1.8
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npm@grpc/grpc-jsGHSA-pp75-xfpw-37g9 (opens in a new tab)
- npmgrpcGHSA-pp75-xfpw-37g9 (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRPC-598671 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GRPCGRPCJS-1038818 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1038819 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/pull/1605 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/grpc/grpc-node/pull/1606 (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-2021-1152 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-pp75-xfpw-37g9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2020-7768)Record last updated .