Vulnerability identifier: #VU69942

Vulnerability risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3517

CWE-ID: CWE-185

Exploitation vector: Network

Exploit availability: No

Vulnerable software:
minimatch
Web applications / JS libraries

Vendor: isaacs

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.

Mitigation
Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

minimatch: 0.0.1 - 3.0.4

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CPE

• cpe:2.3:a:isaacs:minimatch:3.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links
http://github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer/issues/329
http://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/a8763f4388e51956be62dc6025cec1126beeb5e6

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Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?