Resource Exhaustion Affecting nodejs-docs package, versions <1:16.16.0-1.el9_0


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-NODEJSDOCS-3028154
  • 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:9 nodejs-docs to version 1:16.16.0-1.el9_0 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2022:6595.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs-docs package and not the nodejs-docs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 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

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