Resource management error in Mocha - #VU26579
Published: April 5, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU26579
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the script and perform a denial of service attack via regular expression (ReDoS).
Affected software
Mocha
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.
Mocha - update to 7.1.1