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Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 8, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 19, 2024

Package

npm cross-spawn (npm)

Affected versions

>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.5
< 6.0.6

Patched versions

7.0.5
6.0.6

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

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 8, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 8, 2024
Reviewed Nov 15, 2024
Last updated Nov 19, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.045%
(17th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-21538

GHSA ID

GHSA-3xgq-45jj-v275

Source code

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