GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-gh88-3pxp-6fm8 Infinite Loop in colors.js

HIGH Published 2022-01-21 Modified 2022-01-21 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-23567
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
colors
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-835
Reviewed
2022-01-21

Affected packages

• npm colors: >= 1.4.1 (no fix yet)

Description

The package colors after 1.4.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) that was introduced through an infinite loop in the americanFlag module. Unfortunately this appears to have been a purposeful attempt by a maintainer of colors to make the package unusable, other maintainers' controls over this package appear to have been revoked in an attempt to prevent them from fixing the issue. Vulnerable Code js for (let i = 666; i < Infinity; i++;) { Alternative Remediation Suggested * Pin dependancy to 1.4.0

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-23567 The package colors after 1.4.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) that was introduced through an infinite loop in the americanFlag… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References