CVE-2024-21538
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 8.7 High
- Published
- Nov 8, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2026
- Reserved
- Dec 22, 2023
Description
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and 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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.0 | 8.7 High | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P | snyk |
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P | snyk |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1333 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
cross-spawnn/a |
|
org.webjars.npm:cross-spawnn/a |
|
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
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