Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:36861Regular Expression Denial Of Service (ReDoS)
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
27.0%
sanitize-html is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. The vulnerability exists due to the insecure regex pattern used for the href attribute in the sanitizeHtml function of index.js, allowing an attacker to cause an application crash by providing a malicious input.
| CPE | Name | Operator | Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| sanitize-html | le | 2.7.0 | |
| sanitize-html | le | 2.7.0 | |
| sanitize-html | le | 2.7.0 | |
| sanitize-html | eq | 2.4.0 | |
| sanitize-html | le | 2.7.0 | |
| sanitize-html | le | 2.7.0 | |
| sanitize-html | le | 2.7.0 | |
| sanitize-html | eq | 2.4.0 |
Related
7.5 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
27.0%