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CVE-2023-48631 (GCVE-0-2023-48631)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-14 13:09 – Updated: 2024-08-02 21:37
VLAI
Title
Denial of Service of regular expression in package @adobe/css-tools
Summary
@adobe/css-tools versions 4.3.1 and earlier are affected by an Improper Input Validation vulnerability that could result in a denial of service while attempting to parse CSS.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Adobe Not a product Affected: 0 , ≤ 4.3.1 (semver)
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Date Public
2023-12-12 17:00
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