CVE-2024-21538 (GCVE-0-2024-21538)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-08 05:00
Modified
2025-05-20 14:38
Severity ?
7.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a cross-spawn Version: 0   ≤
Version: 7.0.0   ≤
   n/a org.webjars.npm:cross-spawn Version: 0   ≤
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