CVE-2021-23382 (GCVE-0-2021-23382)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-26 15:30 – Updated: 2024-09-16 23:26
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
The package postcss before 8.2.13 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via getAnnotationURL() and loadAnnotation() in lib/previous-map.js. The vulnerable regexes are caused mainly by the sub-pattern \/\*\s* sourceMappingURL=(.*).
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CWE
- Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-POSTCSS-1255640 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1255641 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/postcss/postcss/commit/2b1d04c… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
Date Public
2021-04-26 00:00
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Nomenclature
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