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CVE-2022-37602

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-37602 is a critical prototype pollution vulnerability affecting grunt-karma versions 4.0.1 and earlier, specifically within the grunt-karma.js file via the 'key' variable. This vulnerability boasts a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe, easily exploitable flaw that can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Despite its high severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:grunt-karma_project:grunt-karma:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0167 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-hcj4-xf6x-63wjcritical

Grunt-karma vulnerable to prototype pollution

Oct 14, 2022

References

github.com / karma-runner/grunt-karma/blob/45b925964f55870f375c6e670d9945b223c984f5/tasks/grunt-karma.js
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / karma-runner/grunt-karma/blob/45b925964f55870f375c6e670d9945b223c984f5/tasks/grunt-karma.js
ExploitThird Party Advisory
github.com / karma-runner/grunt-karma/issues/311
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory