Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nodejs-devel (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-NODEJSDEVEL-1355986
- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed12 Mar 2021
Introduced: 12 Mar 2021
CVE-2021-27290 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.
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 RHEL.
ssri 5.2.2-8.0.0, fixed in 8.0.1, processes SRIs using a regular expression which is vulnerable to a denial of service. Malicious SRIs could take an extremely long time to process, leading to denial of service. This issue only affects consumers using the strict option.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-27290
- https://doyensec.com/resources/Doyensec_Advisory_ssri_redos.pdf
- https://github.com/yetingli/SaveResults/blob/main/pdf/ssri-redos.pdf
- https://npmjs.com
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2021.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3074
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf