Denial of service in gulp glob-parent

1) Incorrect Regular Expression

EUVDB-ID: #VU52985

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 4.6 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28469

CWE-ID: CWE-185 - Incorrect Regular Expression

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect handling of user-supplied input in regular expression. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

glob-parent: 1.0.0 - 5.1.1

External links

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1945459
http://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-GLOBPARENT-1016905

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.