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CVE-2021-23362 Detail

Description

The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.


Severity

 


CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score matches with CNA score
CNA:  Snyk
Base Score:  5.3 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L


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Hyperlink Resource
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/29adfe5ef789784c861b2cdeb15051ec2ba651a7 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/8d4b3697d79bcd89cdb36d1db165e3696c783a01 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/bede0dc38e1785e732bf0a48ba6f81a4a908eba3 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commits/v2 Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1088356 Exploit  Patch  Third Party Advisory 
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HOSTEDGITINFO-1088355 Exploit  Patch  Third Party Advisory 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2021-23362
NVD Published Date:
03/23/2021
NVD Last Modified:
08/08/2023
Source:
Snyk