SB2020103047 - Denial of service in CodeMirror

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SB2020103047 - Denial of service in CodeMirror

Published: October 30, 2020 Updated: April 21, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB2020103047
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-7760)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when processing regular expression. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References