SB2024022714 - ReDos in Showdownjs



SB2024022714 - ReDos in Showdownjs

Published: February 27, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2024022714
Severity
Medium
Patch available
NO
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-1899)

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation in subparser when processing links 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

Cybersecurity Help is not aware of any official remediation provided by the vendor.