CVE-2021-21252 (GCVE-0-2021-21252)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-01-13 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:09
VLAI
Title
Regular expression denial of service in jquery-validation
Summary
The jQuery Validation Plugin provides drop-in validation for your existing forms. It is published as an npm package "jquery-validation". jquery-validation before version 1.19.3 contains one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service). This is fixed in 1.19.3.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
jquery-validation jquery-validation Affected: < 1.19.3
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