GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-mpg4-rc92-vx8v fast-xml-parser vulnerable to ReDOS at currency parsing
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-41818
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- fast-xml-parser
- 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, CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2024-07-29
Affected packages
• npm fast-xml-parser: >= 4.3.5, < 4.4.1 → fixed in 4.4.1
Description
Summary
A ReDOS that exists on currency.js was discovered by Gauss Security Labs R&D team.
Details
https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/blob/v4.4.0/src/v5/valueParsers/currency.js#L10 contains a vulnerable regex
PoC
pass the following string '\t'.repeat(13337) + '.'
Impact
Denial of service during currency parsing in experimental version 5 of fast-xml-parser-library
https://gauss-security.com
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-41818 fast-xml-parser is an open source, pure javascript xml parser. vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-mpg4-rc92-vx8v web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41818 advisory
- https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/commit/ba5f35e7680468acd7906eaabb2f69e28ed8b2aa web
- https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/commit/d0bfe8a3a2813a185f39591bbef222212d856164 web
- https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser package
- https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/blob/master/src/v5/valueParsers/currency.js#L10 web