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CVE-2020-1920 (GCVE-0-2020-1920)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-01 11:45 – Updated: 2024-08-04 06:54
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Summary
A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the validateBaseUrl function can cause the application to use excessive resources, become unresponsive, or crash. This was introduced in react-native version 0.59.0 and fixed in version 0.64.1.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Facebook react-native Unaffected: 0.64.1 , < unspecified (custom)
Affected: 0.59.0 , < unspecified (custom)
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