GHSA-3xgq-45jj-v275

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2024-21538
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS_V4
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Description

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
npm · cross-spawnintroduced 7.0.0, fixed 7.0.5
npm · cross-spawnintroduced 0, fixed 6.0.6

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database