Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2023-26115 |
CWE-ID | CWE-1333 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software |
word-wrap Web applications / JS libraries |
Vendor | Jon Schlinkert |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU79799
Risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26115
CWE-ID:
CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Install update from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsword-wrap: 1.0.1 - 1.2.3
CPE2.3https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-4058657
https://github.com/jonschlinkert/word-wrap/blob/master/index.js%23L39
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WORDWRAP-3149973
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.