Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) (codemirror)

CVE-2020-7760

MEDIUM 5.3

At a glance

Source: NVD
EPSS: EPSS 5.30 % · percentile 93 (2026-10-31)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2020-10-30 11:10 UTC
Updated: 2024-09-17 01:06 UTC
Assigner: snyk
NVD status: Modified

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Description

This affects the package codemirror before 5.58.2; the package org.apache.marmotta.webjars:codemirror before 5.58.2. The vulnerable regular expression is located in https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/blob/cdb228ac736369c685865b122b736cd0d397836c/mode/javascript/javascript.jsL129. The ReDOS vulnerability of the regex is mainly due to the sub-pattern (s|/*.*?*/)*

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C	snyk
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	NVD · report@snyk.io (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	HIGH 7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
CVSS 2.0	MEDIUM 5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Advisories

GHSA-4gw3-8f77-f72c — Regular expression denial of service in codemirror

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2021-0941
GCVE · GCVE-0-2020-7760

CERT-FR advisories

CERTFR-2026-AVI-0901 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2021-AVI-556 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle Database Server · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
CERTFR-2021-AVI-295 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans Oracle Database · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:codemirror:codemirror:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 5.58.2
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:application_express:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 20.2
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:enterprise_manager_express_user_interface:19c:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:essbase:21.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:hyperion_data_relationship_management:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 11.2.9.0
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:spatial_studio:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* < 19.1.0

Affected products

Product	Versions
codemirror	affected unspecified < 5.58.2
org.apache.marmotta.webjars:codemirror	affected unspecified < 5.58.2

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)	Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD

🟡 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) (codemirror)