CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-26302
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333, CWE-400
Description
is.js is a general-purpose check library. Versions 0.9.0 and prior contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). is.js uses a regex copy-pasted from a gist to validate URLs. Trying to validate a malicious string can cause the regex to loop “forever." This vulnerability was found using a CodeQL query which identifies inefficient regular expressions. is.js has no patch for this issue.
Affected configurations
• is.js project is.js (<= 0.9.0)
Related
References
- https://github.com/arasatasaygin/is.js/issues/320 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-295-redos-is.js Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/arasatasaygin/is.js/issues/320 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-295-redos-is.js Exploit, Third Party Advisory