SB2021030912 - Denial of service in jsPDF
Published: March 9, 2021 Updated: January 31, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021030912
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 management error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23353)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the application when processing data with regular expressions within the addImage function. A remote attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service via regular expression (ReDoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.