CVE-2020-7767 (GCVE-0-2020-7767)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-11 10:20 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:25
VLAI
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
All versions of package express-validators are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when validating specifically-crafted invalid urls.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:U/RC:C
CWE
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a express-validators Affected: 0 , < unspecified (custom)
Date Public
2020-11-11 00:00
Credits
Yeting Li
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