#VU26579 Resource management error in Mocha

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#VU26579 Resource management error in Mocha

Published: April 5, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU26579
Vulnerability risk: 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: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Mocha
Software vendor:
mochajs.org

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to an error when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the script and perform a denial of service attack via regular expression (ReDoS).


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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