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Red Hat: CVE-2021-23362: Regular Expression denial of service via shortcutMatch in fromUrl() (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2021-23362: Regular Expression denial of service via shortcutMatch in fromUrl() (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/23/2021
Created
08/12/2021
Added
08/12/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18n
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-nodemon
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging
  • redhat-upgrade-npm

References

  • CVE-2021-23362
  • RHSA-2021:3073
  • RHSA-2021:3074
  • RHSA-2021:3638
  • RHSA-2021:3639

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