Knwl.js Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Description

Knwl.js is a Javascript library that parses through text for dates, times, phone numbers, emails, places, and more. Versions 1.0.2 and prior contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 1.0.2

References

• GHSA-68qg-g787-3rp5
• CVE-2020-26306
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• useragent Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26311
• ua-parser-js Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-7793
• Foundation Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26304
• CommonRegexJS Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26305

Tags:

npm

knwl.js