CVE-2021-23424 (GCVE-0-2021-23424)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-18 16:15 – Updated: 2024-09-16 17:38
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.
Severity
CWE
- Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/Tjatse/ansi-html/issues/19 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANSIHTML-1296849 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1567198 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Date Public
2021-08-18 00:00
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