Resource Exhaustion Affecting nodejs-devel package, versions <1:14.18.2-2.module+el8.5.0+13644+8d46dafd


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-NODEJSDEVEL-2321515
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 May 2021

Introduced: 21 May 2021

CVE-2021-33502  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Centos:8 nodejs-devel to version 1:14.18.2-2.module+el8.5.0+13644+8d46dafd or higher.

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. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The normalize-url package before 4.5.1, 5.x before 5.3.1, and 6.x before 6.0.1 for Node.js has a ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) issue because it has exponential performance for data: URLs.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1