Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting nodejs10-docs package, versions <10.24.1-1.36.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-NODEJS10DOCS-2671273
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Jul 2021

Introduced: 15 Jul 2021

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

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 nodejs10-docs to version 10.24.1-1.36.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs10-docs package and not the nodejs10-docs package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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