#VU80344 Inefficient regular expression complexity in Postcss - CVE-2021-23382
Published: September 4, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU80344
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: CVE-2021-23382
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Postcss
Postcss
Software vendor:
Postcss
Postcss
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 within the getAnnotationURL() and loadAnnotation() functions in lib/previous-map.js. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.