GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-6g33-8w2q-4hxv robots-txt-guard Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability

HIGH Published 2023-01-05 Modified 2023-01-11 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-4305
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
robots-txt-guard
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
2023-01-09

Affected packages

• npm robots-txt-guard: < 1.0.2 → fixed in 1.0.2

Description

A vulnerability was found in Woorank robots-txt-guard. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function makePathPattern of the file lib/patterns.js. The manipulation of the argument pattern leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is c03827cd2f9933619c23894ce7c98401ea824020. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217448.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-4305 A vulnerability was found in Woorank robots-txt-guard. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References