GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96 prismjs Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2021-09-20 Modified 2022-08-10 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-3801
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
prismjs
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2021-09-16

Affected packages

• npm prismjs: < 1.25.0 → fixed in 1.25.0

Description

Prism is a syntax highlighting library. The prismjs package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). An attacker that is able to provide a crafted HTML comment as input may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-3801 prism is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References