Incorrect Regular Expression in node-cross-spawn - CVE-2024-21538
Published: November 26, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU100921
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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-2024-21538
CWE-ID: CWE-185
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: MOXY
Affected software:
node-cross-spawn
node-cross-spawn
Detailed vulnerability 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 regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2024-21538
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230
- https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160
- https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f
- https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349