#VU98132 Inefficient regular expression complexity in path-to-regexp - CVE-2024-45296 

 

#VU98132 Inefficient regular expression complexity in path-to-regexp - CVE-2024-45296

Published: October 8, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU98132
Vulnerability risk: Low
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:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-45296
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
path-to-regexp
Software vendor:
pillarjs

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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