Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2020-36649 |
CWE-ID | CWE-185 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software Subscribe |
papaparse Web applications / JS libraries |
Vendor | GabrielL |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU74226
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1:
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-36649
CWE-ID:
Exploit availability:
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to usage of a very complex regular expression in papaparse.js. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and consume extensive system resources, resulting in a denial of service condition.
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Vulnerable software versionspapaparse: 5.0.0 - 5.1.1
Fixed software versionsCPE2.3 External links
http://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/commit/235a12758cd77266d2e98fd715f53536b34ad621
http://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/pull/779
http://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/777
http://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218004
http://vuldb.com/?id.218004
http://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/releases/tag/5.2.0
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