Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nodejs-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS10-NODEJSDEVEL-11500405
- published7 Aug 2025
- disclosed8 Nov 2024
Introduced: 8 Nov 2024
CVE-2024-21538 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs-devel package and not the nodejs-devel package as distributed by Centos.
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and 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.
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2324550
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-21538
- https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff
- https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f
- https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349