SB2020040409 - Regular expression DoS in MochaJS Mocha
Published: April 4, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020040409
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Partial DoS
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Resource management error (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the script and perform a denial of service attack via regular expression (ReDoS).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.