Regular Expression Denial of Service in ssri · CVE-2018-7651 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Regular Expression Denial of Service in ssri

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 7, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

ssri (npm)

Affected versions

< 5.2.2

Patched versions

5.2.2

Description

Version of ssri prior to 5.2.2 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) when using strict mode.

Recommendation

Update to version 5.2.2 or later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 7, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate

5.9

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

High

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H