Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2018-20801 |
CWE-ID | CWE-20 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
highcharts Web applications / JS libraries |
Vendor | highcharts |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU36063
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20801
CWE-ID:
CWE-20 - Improper input validation
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.
MitigationInstall update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionshighcharts: 6.0.0 - 6.0.7
External linkshttp://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa
http://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/
http://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.