Resource Exhaustion Affecting rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel package, versions <0:14.17.2-1.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.71% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RHNODEJS14NODEJSDEVEL-4825988
  • 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 RHEL:7 rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel to version 0:14.17.2-1.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:2932.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel package and not the rh-nodejs14-nodejs-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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 Base Scores

version 3.1