Improper Input Validation in Google Closure Library

Description

A URL parsing issue in goog.uri of the Google Closure Library versions up to and including v20200224 allows an attacker to send malicious URLs to be parsed by the library and return the wrong authority. Mitigation – update your library to version v20200315.

Recommendation

Update the google-closure-library package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): <= 20200224.0.0
• Patched version(s): 20200315.0.0

References

• GHSA-vh5w-fg69-rc8m
• CVE-2020-8910
• CWE-20
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Improper Input Validation in SocksJS-Node - CVE-2020-7693
• Improper Input Validation in klona - CVE-2020-8125
• Improper Input Validation in access-policy - CVE-2020-7674
• Improper Input Validation in vriteio/vrite - CVE-2023-5571

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Tags:

npm

google-closure-library