SB2021041228 - Regular expression denial of service in postcss
Published: April 12, 2021 Updated: September 4, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021041228
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) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23368)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing source map with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/postcss/postcss/commit/8682b1e4e328432ba692bed52326e84439cec9e4
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-POSTCSS-1090595
- https://github.com/postcss/postcss/commit/b6f3e4d5a8d7504d553267f80384373af3a3dec5
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1244795
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r16e295b4f02d81b79981237d602cb0b9e59709bafaa73ac98be7cef1@%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5acd89f3827ad9a9cad6d24ed93e377f7114867cd98cfba616c6e013@%3Ccommits.myfaces.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r00158f5d770d75d0655c5eef1bdbc6150531606c8f8bcb778f0627be@%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8def971a66cf3e375178fbee752e1b04a812a047cc478ad292007e33@%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rad5af2044afb51668b1008b389ac815a28ecea9eb75ae2cab5a00ebb@%3Ccommits.myfaces.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r49afb49b38748897211b1f89c3a64dc27f9049474322b05715695aab@%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E