CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-23354
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-03-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- 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 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
Description
The package printf before 0.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the regex string /\%(?:\(([\w_.]+)\)|([1-9]\d*)\$)?([0 +\-\]*)(\*|\d+)?(\.)?(\*|\d+)?[hlL]?([\%bscdeEfFgGioOuxX])/g in lib/printf.js. The vulnerable regular expression has cubic worst-case time complexity.
Affected configurations
• adaltas printf (< 0.6.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/adaltas/node-printf/issues/31 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/adaltas/node-printf/pull/32 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PRINTF-1072096 Broken Link
- https://github.com/adaltas/node-printf/issues/31 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/adaltas/node-printf/pull/32 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PRINTF-1072096 Broken Link