Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37094

Input validation error in ansi2html - CVE-2015-9239

Published: May 31, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37094

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-2015-9239

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: ralphbean (Ralph Bean)

Affected software:
ansi2html

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

ansi2html is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) when certain types of user input is passed in.

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