CVE-2024-21538 The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package opensearch-dashboards-2  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.87% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-OPENSEARCHDASHBOARDS2-15406569
  • published5 Mar 2026
  • disclosed8 Nov 2024

Introduced: 8 Nov 2024

CVE-2024-21538  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Wolfi security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Wolfi:latest.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opensearch-dashboards-2 package and not the opensearch-dashboards-2 package as distributed by Wolfi.

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.