prismjs Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Description

Prism is a syntax highlighting library. The prismjs package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). An attacker that is able to provide a crafted HTML comment as input may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Recommendation

Update the prismjs package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.25.0
• Patched version(s): 1.25.0

References

• GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96
• huntr.dev
• CVE-2021-3801
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Prism - CVE-2021-32723
• Regular Expression Denial-of-Service in npm schema-inspector - CVE-2021-21267
• MooTools Regular Expression Denial of Service - CVE-2021-32821
• Knwl.js Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26306

Tags:

npm

prismjs