CVE-2024-21538

high

Description

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349

https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160

https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f

https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-08

Updated: 2024-11-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High