PT-2020-6496 · Unknown · Datatables.Net

Published 2020-10-25 · Updated 2025-07-30 · CVE-2020-28458

Positive Technologies · (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions:

datatables.net (affected versions not specified)

Description:

The issue is related to insufficient control of modification of dynamically defined object properties, which can be exploited by a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. The vulnerability is due to an incomplete fix for a previously known issue.

Recommendations:

At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Prototype Pollution

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-915

CWE-1321

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

BDU:2021-05423

CVE-2020-28458

GHSA-M7J4-FHG6-XF5V

RHSA-2021:1169

RHSA-2021:1184

RHSA-2021:1186

SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1051961

SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1051962

SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-1016402

SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-598806

Affected Products

Datatables.Net

References · 20

• 🔥 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-598806 · Exploit
• https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc/commit/a51cbe99fd3d02aa5582f97d4af1615d11a1ea03 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28458 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-m7j4-fhg6-xf5v · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-28458 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2021-05423 · Security Note
• https://github.com/DataTables/DataTablesSrc · Note
• https://github.com/418sec/huntr/pull/827 · Note
• https://github.com/DataTables/Dist-DataTables/blob/master/js/jquery.dataTables.js%23L2766 · Note
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-DATATABLESNET-1016402 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-28458 · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/84068 · Telegram Post
• https://ibm.com/blogs/psirt/security-bulletin-vulnerabilities-in-apache-and-node-js-affect-ibm-spectrum-protect-plus · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-28458 · Note
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1051961 · Note