CVE-2020-27511 Affecting prototypejs package, versions <1.7.3-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-PROTOTYPEJS-1557834
  • published4 Aug 2021
  • disclosed21 Jun 2021

Introduced: 21 Jun 2021

CVE-2020-27511  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 prototypejs to version 1.7.3-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream prototypejs package and not the prototypejs package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in the stripTags and unescapeHTML components in Prototype 1.7.3 where an attacker can cause a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) through stripping crafted HTML tags.

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