cve-2024-21538
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-08 05:00
Modified
2025-05-20 14:38
Severity ?
7.7 (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
Summary
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.
References
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f
report@snyk.iohttps://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160
report@snyk.iohttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349
report@snyk.iohttps://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230
Impacted products
n/across-spawn
n/aorg.webjars.npm:cross-spawn
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