Regular Expression Denial of Service in sshpk

Description

Versions of sshpk before 1.13.2 or 1.14.1 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when parsing crafted invalid public keys.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.13.2
• Patched version(s): 1.13.2

References

• GHSA-2m39-62fm-q8r3
• hackerone.com
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2018-3737
• CWE-185
• CWE-770
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

sshpk