CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26256
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 3.5 LOW — AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
Fast-csv is an npm package for parsing and formatting CSVs or any other delimited value file in node. In fast-cvs before version 4.3.6 there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability (Regular Expression Denial of Service) when using ignoreEmpty option when parsing. This has been patched in `v4.3.6` You will only be affected by this if you use the `ignoreEmpty` parsing option. If you do use this option it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest version `v4.3.6` This vulnerability was found using a CodeQL query which identified `EMPTY_ROW_REGEXP` regular expression as vulnerable.
Affected configurations
• c2fo fast-csv (< 4.3.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/commit/4bbd39f26a8cd7382151ab4f5fb102234b2f829e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/issues/540 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/security/advisories/GHSA-8cv5-p934-3hwp Third Party Advisory
- https://lgtm.com/query/8609731774537641779/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/%40fast-csv/parse www.npmjs.com
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-csv Product, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/commit/4bbd39f26a8cd7382151ab4f5fb102234b2f829e Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/issues/540 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/security/advisories/GHSA-8cv5-p934-3hwp Third Party Advisory
- https://lgtm.com/query/8609731774537641779/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/%40fast-csv/parse www.npmjs.com
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-csv Product, Third Party Advisory