CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-20801
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-03-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-185
Description
In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.
Affected configurations
• highcharts highcharts (< 6.1.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression weakness
References
- https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/ security.netapp.com
- https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225 Exploit, Third Party Advisory