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CVE-2021-23343 (GCVE-0-2021-23343)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-04 08:25 – Updated: 2024-09-16 22:14
VLAI
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
All versions of package path-parse are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions. ReDoS exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a path-parse Affected: 0 , < unspecified (custom)
Date Public
2021-05-04 00:00
Credits
Yeting Li
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