Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting nodejs package, versions <1:12.22.3-2.module+el8.4.0+638+5344c6f7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-NODEJS-3287136
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • disclosed23 Mar 2021

Introduced: 23 Mar 2021

CVE-2021-23362  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 nodejs to version 1:12.22.3-2.module+el8.4.0+638+5344c6f7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2021:3073.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 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 Scores

version 3.1