GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-9fhw-r42p-5c7r Regular expression Denial of Service in @progfay/scrapbox-parser
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-27405
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- @progfay/scrapbox-parser
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2021-02-26
Affected packages
• npm @progfay/scrapbox-parser: < 6.0.3 → fixed in 6.0.3
• npm @progfay/scrapbox-parser: >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2 → fixed in 7.0.2
Description
Impact
A Regular expression Denial of Service flaw was found in the @progfay/scrapbox-parser package before 6.0.3, 7.0.2 for Node.js.
The attacker that is able to be parsed a specially crafted text may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.
Patches
Upgrade to version 6.0.3, 7.0.2 or later.
Workarounds
Avoid to parse text with a lot of `` chars.
References
• https://github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser/pull/519
• https://github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser/pull/539
• https://github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser/pull/540
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2021-27405
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PROGFAYSCRAPBOXPARSER-1076803
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
• Open an issue in [github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-27405 A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the @progfay/scrapbox-parser package before 6.0.3 for Node.js. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-9fhw-r42p-5c7r web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27405 advisory
- https://github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser/pull/519 web
- https://github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser/pull/539 web
- https://github.com/progfay/scrapbox-parser/pull/540 web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210326-0002 web