Incorrect Regular Expression in Braces - CVE-2018-1109

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Incorrect Regular Expression in Braces - CVE-2018-1109

Published: June 7, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU77048
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1109
CWE-ID: CWE-185
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Braces
Software vendor:
micromatch

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.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

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