#VU85293 Inefficient regular expression complexity in word-wrap - CVE-2023-26155

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#VU85293 Inefficient regular expression complexity in word-wrap - CVE-2023-26155

Published: January 11, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU85293
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-26155
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
word-wrap
Software vendor:
Jon Schlinkert

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 untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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