Regular Expression Denial of Service in highcharts (GHSA-xmc8-cjfr-phx3)

Description

Versions of highcharts prior to 6.1.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). Untrusted input may cause catastrophic backtracking while matching regular expressions. This can cause the application to be unresponsive leading to Denial of Service.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 6.1.0
• Patched version(s): 6.1.0

References

• GHSA-xmc8-cjfr-phx3
• www.npmjs.com
• snyk.io
• security.netapp.com
• CVE-2018-20801
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash (GHSA-x5rq-j2xg-h7qm) 2 - CVE-2019-1010266
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked (GHSA-x5pg-88wf-qq4p) - CVE-2017-16114
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in ssri - CVE-2018-7651
• regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) (GHSA-r92x-f52r-x54g) - CVE-2020-26289

Tags:

npm

highcharts