CVE-2021-23364 (GCVE-0-2021-23364)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-28 15:35 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:06
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
The package browserslist from 4.0.0 and before 4.16.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) during parsing of queries.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-BROWSERSLIST-1090194 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1277182 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/blob… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/comm… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/browserslist/browserslist/pull/593 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | browserslist |
Affected:
4.0.0 , < unspecified
(custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 4.16.5 (custom) |
Date Public
2021-04-28 00:00
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- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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