SB2019042320 - Resource exhaustion in Sass LibSass
Published: April 23, 2019 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019042320
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-20822)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
LibSass 3.5.4 allows attackers to cause a denial-of-service (uncontrolled recursion in Sass::Complex_Selector::perform in ast.hpp and Sass::Inspect::operator in inspect.cpp).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.