Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting nodejs-packaging package, versions <0:17-3.module+el8.3.0+101+f84c7154


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-NODEJSPACKAGING-3211437
  • 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-packaging to version 0:17-3.module+el8.3.0+101+f84c7154 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2021:3073.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs-packaging package and not the nodejs-packaging 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