CVE-2022-37617 is a critical prototype pollution vulnerability affecting the thlorenz browserify-shim project, specifically in the resolveShims function within resolve-shims.js. With a CVSS score of 9.8, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability over the network with low attack complexity. While there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or inclusion in the KEV catalog, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion with 10 mentions, indicating awareness. Organizations using browserify-shim 3.8.15 or earlier should prioritize patching to mitigate this severe risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.8.15CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:browserify-shim_project:browserify-shim:3.8.15:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
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.