Description

The semver package before 4.3.2 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

Remediation

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86957

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/31

Related Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-10786 Vulnerability in npm package network-manager

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CVE-2019-10344 Vulnerability in maven package io.jenkins:configuration-as-code

CVE-2022-36083 Vulnerability in npm package jose

CVE-2020-12265 Vulnerability in npm package decompress

Severity

High

Classification

CWE-399 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Tags

Mailing List Third Party Advisory VDB Entry Patch Vendor Advisory