Resource management error in jspdf - CVE-2021-23353
Published: March 9, 2021 / Updated: January 31, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU51274
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: CVE-2021-23353
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 improper management of internal resources within the application when processing data with regular expressions within the addImage function. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service via regular expression (ReDoS) attack.
Affected software
jspdf
How to mitigate CVE-2021-23353
Install updates from vendor's website.
jspdf - update to 2.3.1