Description
The xmlhttprequest-ssl package before 1.6.1 for Node.js disables SSL certificate validation by default, because rejectUnauthorized (when the property exists but is undefined) is considered to be false within the https.request function of Node.js. In other words, no certificate is ever rejected.
Remediation
References
https://people.kingsds.network/wesgarland/xmlhttprequest-ssl-vuln.txt
https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/commit/bf53329b61ca6afc5d28f6b8d2dc2e3ca740a9b2
https://github.com/mjwwit/node-XMLHttpRequest/compare/v1.6.0...1.6.1
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210618-0004/
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