CVE-2021-32723

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Prism

State
Published
Severity
7.4 High
Published
Jun 28, 2021
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
May 12, 2021

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Description

Prism is a syntax highlighting library. Some languages before 1.24.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). When Prism is used to highlight untrusted (user-given) text, an attacker can craft a string that will take a very very long time to highlight. This problem has been fixed in Prism v1.24. As a workaround, do not use ASCIIDoc or ERB to highlight untrusted text. Other languages are not affected and can be used to highlight untrusted text.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.4 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

ProductVersions
prismPrismJS
  • < 1.24Affected

References

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