CVE-2021-44906

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-03-18. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2022-1589 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 4.6%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Minimist <=1.2.5 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via file index.js, function setKey() (lines 69-95).

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
61
EG Risk 61/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation4.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability100% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: yes (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
4.6%
EPSS %ILE
91st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
4.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-12). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 60 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable yes (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

March 17, 2022

Last Modified

October 8, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Nov 8, 2026
🔬 Proof of concept available. Patch available.
Web page

JavaScript-vulnerability-detection/minimist PoC.zip at main · Marynk/JavaScript-vulnerability-detection · GitHub

https://github.com/Marynk/JavaScript-vulnerability-detection/blob/main/minimist%20PoC.zip
Web page🟡 PoC Available

Prototype Pollution in minimist | CVE-2020-7598 | Snyk

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-MINIMIST-559764

Patch Availability(24)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhateap7-wildfly-0:7.3.12-3.GA_redhat_00002.1.el7eap2025-02-24redhat
redhatnodejs:14-8060020230306170237.ad008a3a2023-04-12redhat
redhatnodejs:14-8040020230306170312.522a0ee42023-03-30redhat
redhatrh-sso7-keycloak-0:18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el7sso2023-03-01redhat
redhatkeycloak-theme2023-03-01redhat
redhatrh-sso7-keycloak-0:18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el9sso2023-03-01redhat
redhatrh-sso7-keycloak-0:18.0.6-1.redhat_00001.1.el8sso2023-03-01redhat
redhatrh-sso-7/sso76-openshift-rhel8:7.6-202023-03-01redhat
redhatrh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.20-2.el72023-02-06redhat
redhatnodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.20-2.el9_12023-01-23redhat
redhatnodejs:14-8070020221212161539.bd1311ed2023-01-09redhat
redhatnodejs:16-8070020221207164159.bd1311ed2022-12-15redhat
redhatio.hawt-hawtio-integration2022-11-28redhat
redhatrh-nodejs14-nodejs-0:14.20.1-2.el72022-10-19redhat
redhatorg.kie.workbench-kie-wb-common2022-10-05redhat
redhatopenshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8:v4.11.0-202208020235.p0.gf08da2d.assembly.stream2022-08-10redhat
redhatorg.jboss.hal/hal-console:3.3.13.Final-redhat-000012022-08-08redhat
redhateap7-hal-console-0:3.3.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap2022-08-03redhat
redhateap7-hal-console-0:3.3.13-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap2022-08-03redhat
redhateap7-yasson-0:1.0.10-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap2022-08-03redhat
redhatrh-nodejs12-nodejs-0:12.22.12-2.el72022-06-06redhat
redhatopenshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8:1.36.9-12022-05-05redhat
npmminimist @ 1.2.6 (fixes >= 1.0.0, < 1.2.6)—ghsa
npmminimist @ 0.2.4 (fixes < 0.2.4)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-minimist1.2.5+~cs5.3.1-2
  • every version up to 1.2.5+~cs5.3.1-2+deb11u1: fixed in 1.2.5+~cs5.3.1-2+deb11u1
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-minimist—
  • every version up to 1.2.6+~cs5.3.2-1: fixed in 1.2.6+~cs5.3.2-1
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-minimist—
  • every version up to 1.2.6+~cs5.3.2-1: fixed in 1.2.6+~cs5.3.2-1
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
node-minimist—
  • every version up to 1.2.6+~cs5.3.2-1: fixed in 1.2.6+~cs5.3.2-1
—
npm(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
minimist—
  • 1.0.0 up to 1.2.6: fixed in 1.2.6
  • every version up to 0.2.4: fixed in 0.2.4
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(2)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 21× in last 7d / 72× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 294 rows on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 194 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-12 18:34 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  2. 2026-11-12 18:34 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-12 18:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-11-12 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  5. 2026-11-11 19:15 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  6. 2026-11-11 19:15 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-11 19:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-11-11 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  9. 2026-11-10 19:53 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  10. 2026-11-10 19:53 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-10 19:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-10 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  13. 2026-11-09 20:22 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  14. 2026-11-09 20:22 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-11-09 20:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-11-09 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  17. 2026-11-08 21:03 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-08 21:03 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-11-08 21:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-11-08 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  21. 2026-11-07 21:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  22. 2026-11-07 21:44 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-11-07 21:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-11-07 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  25. 2026-11-06 22:24 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
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  1. 2026-11-06 22:24 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-11-06 22:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-11-06 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  4. 2026-11-05 22:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  5. 2026-11-05 22:59 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-11-05 22:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-11-05 16:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  8. 2026-11-04 23:40 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  9. 2026-11-04 23:40 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-11-04 23:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-11-04 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  12. 2026-11-04 00:18 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-04 00:18 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-11-04 00:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-11-03 21:55 UTCOSV refresh
  16. 2026-11-03 16:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  17. 2026-11-03 00:59 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  18. 2026-11-03 00:59 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-11-03 00:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-11-02 01:38 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-02 01:38 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-02 01:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-11-01 08:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xvch-5gv4-984h · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-11-01 08:30 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-11-01 02:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  26. 2026-11-01 02:19 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-31 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  28. 2026-10-31 03:01 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  29. 2026-10-31 03:01 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-10-30 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  31. 2026-10-30 03:42 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  32. 2026-10-30 03:42 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-29 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  34. 2026-10-29 04:22 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  35. 2026-10-29 04:22 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-28 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  37. 2026-10-28 04:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  38. 2026-10-28 04:58 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-27 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  40. 2026-10-27 05:39 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  41. 2026-10-27 05:39 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-26 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  43. 2026-10-26 02:16 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-25 18:20 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  45. 2026-10-25 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  46. 2026-10-25 02:56 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  47. 2026-10-25 02:56 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-24 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  49. 2026-10-24 03:37 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  50. 2026-10-24 03:37 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-23 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  52. 2026-10-23 04:17 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  53. 2026-10-23 04:17 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-22 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  55. 2026-10-22 04:47 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  56. 2026-10-22 04:47 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-21 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  58. 2026-10-21 05:28 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  59. 2026-10-21 05:28 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-20 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  61. 2026-10-20 06:07 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  62. 2026-10-20 06:07 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-19 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  64. 2026-10-19 06:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  65. 2026-10-19 06:46 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-18 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  67. 2026-10-18 07:25 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  68. 2026-10-18 07:25 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-17 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  70. 2026-10-17 08:06 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  71. 2026-10-17 08:06 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-16 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile
  73. 2026-10-16 08:44 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  74. 2026-10-16 08:44 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-15 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 4.6% · 91st percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2021-44906?
CVE-2021-44906 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on March 17, 2022. Minimist <=1.2.5 is vulnerable to Prototype Pollution via file index.js, function setKey() (lines 69-95).
When was the CVE record for CVE-2021-44906 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2021-44906 was published on March 17, 2022. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 8, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2021-44906 actively exploited?
CVE-2021-44906 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (91st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2021-44906?
CVE-2021-44906 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2021-44906?
A fix for CVE-2021-44906 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2021-44906 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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