GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-mvmf-cvfx-qg55 Regular Expression Denial of Service in bleach

MEDIUM Published 2020-09-01 Modified 2021-09-23 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2014-8881
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
bleach
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2020-08-31

Affected packages

• npm bleach: >= 0.0.0 (no fix yet)

Description

All versions of the `bleach` package are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service attack when certain types of input are passed into the sanitize function. Recommendation The `bleach` package is not currently maintained, and has not seen an update since 2014. To mitigate this issue, it is necessary to use an alternative module that is actively maintained and provides similar functionality. There are multiple modules fitting this criteria available on npm..

Related

Alias · not in database (1)

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References