Regular expression denial of service in word-wrap



Published: 2023-08-21
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
Subscribe 		word-wrap
Web applications / JS libraries

Vendor Jon Schlinkert

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Inefficient regular expression complexity

EUVDB-ID: #VU79799

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26115

CWE-ID:

Exploit availability:

Description

The 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.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

word-wrap: 1.0.1 - 1.2.3

Fixed software versions

CPE2.3 External links

http://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-4058657
http://github.com/jonschlinkert/word-wrap/blob/master/index.js%23L39
http://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-WORDWRAP-3149973


Q & A

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