Denial of service in gulp glob-parent library

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU55102

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2021-35065

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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 expressions. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

glob-parent: 1.0.0 - 6.0.0

External links

http://github.com/gulpjs/glob-parent/releases/tag/v6.0.1

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.