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CVE-2024-21538

Nov. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.

Tags

CWE-1333
report@snyk.io
2024-11-08
CVE-2024-21538

CVSS Score

7.5 / 10

Product(s) Impacted

cross-spawn

  • before 7.0.5

Description

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

Weaknesses

CWE-1333
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

CWE ID: 1333

Date

Published: Nov. 8, 2024, 5:15 a.m.

Last Modified: Nov. 19, 2024, 2:15 p.m.

Status : Awaiting Analysis

CVE has been recently published to the CVE List and has been received by the NVD.

More info

Source

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CVSS Data

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score
7.5
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
Base Severity
HIGH
CVSS Vector String

The CVSS vector string provides an in-depth view of the vulnerability metrics.

View Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

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