GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-8cv5-p934-3hwp Denial of service in fast-csv
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2020-26256
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- fast-csv, @fast-csv/parse
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2020-12-08
Affected packages
• npm fast-csv: < 4.3.6 → fixed in 4.3.6
• npm @fast-csv/parse: < 4.3.6 → fixed in 4.3.6
Description
Impact
Possible ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) when using `ignoreEmpty` option when parsing.
Patches
This has been patched in `v4.3.6`
Workarounds
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`
References
This vulnerability was found using a CodeQL query which identified `EMPTY_ROW_REGEXP` regular expression as vulnerable.
Link to query run.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
• Open an issue in fast-csv
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2020-26256 Fast-csv is an npm package for parsing and formatting CSVs or any other delimited value file in node. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/security/advisories/GHSA-8cv5-p934-3hwp web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26256 advisory
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/issues/540 web
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv/commit/4bbd39f26a8cd7382151ab4f5fb102234b2f829e web
- https://github.com/C2FO/fast-csv package
- https://lgtm.com/query/8609731774537641779 web
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1587 web
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/1588 web
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/@fast-csv/parse web
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/fast-csv web