#VU92406 Incorrect Regular Expression in Braces - CVE-2024-4067 

 

#VU92406 Incorrect Regular Expression in Braces - CVE-2024-4067

Published: June 20, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU92406
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-4067
CWE-ID: CWE-185
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Braces
Software vendor:
micromatch

Description

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

The vulnerability occurs in `micromatch.braces()` in `index.js` because the pattern `.*` will greedily match anything. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Remediation

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

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