CVE-2021-23362 Affecting node-hosted-git-info package, versions <3.0.8-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-NODEHOSTEDGITINFO-1089310
  • published26 Mar 2021
  • disclosed23 Mar 2021

Introduced: 23 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-23362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable node-hosted-git-info to version 3.0.8-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream node-hosted-git-info package and not the node-hosted-git-info package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1