SB2022070444 - Denial of service in jquery-validation

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-31147)

CWE-ID: CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

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

The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing untrusted input within a regular expression. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

Note, the vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for #VU63477 (CVE-2021-43306).

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/releases/tag/1.19.5
• https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/commit/5bbd80d27fc6b607d2f7f106c89522051a9fb0dd
• https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/security/advisories/GHSA-ffmh-x56j-9rc3