CVE-2024-4067
Regular Expression Denial of Service in micromatch
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.3 Medium
- Published
- May 13, 2024
- Updated
- Sep 17, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 23, 2024
Description
The NPM package `micromatch` prior to 4.0.8 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). The vulnerability occurs in `micromatch.braces()` in `index.js` because the pattern `.*` will greedily match anything. By passing a malicious payload, the pattern matching will keep backtracking to the input while it doesn't find the closing bracket. As the input size increases, the consumption time will also increase until it causes the application to hang or slow down. There was a merged fix but further testing shows the issue persists. This issue should be mitigated by using a safe pattern that won't start backtracking the regular expression due to greedy matching. This issue was fixed in version 4.0.8.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.3 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L | Checkmarx |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
micromatchmicromatch |
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References
- https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2024-4067/
- https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/pull/266
- https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/commit/03aa8052171e878897eee5d7bb2ae0ae83ec2ade
- https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/releases/tag/4.0.8
- https://advisory.checkmarx.net/advisory/CVE-2024-4067/
- https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/blob/2c56a8604b68c1099e7bc0f807ce0865a339747a/index.js#L448
- https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/issues/243
- https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/pull/247
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