CVE-2024-21538

Published Nov 8, 2024

Last updated 9 days ago

Overview

Description
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.
Source
report@snyk.io
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
7.5
Impact score
3.6
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity
HIGH

Weaknesses

report@snyk.io
CWE-1333

Social media

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Hype score

1