GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-3xgq-45jj-v275 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn

HIGH Published 2024-11-08 Modified 2025-05-19 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-21538
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
cross-spawn
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333
Reviewed
2024-11-15

Affected packages

• npm cross-spawn: >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.5 → fixed in 7.0.5 • npm cross-spawn: < 6.0.6 → fixed in 6.0.6

Description

Versions of the package cross-spawn 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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-21538 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References