Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Description

The is-svg package 2.1.0 through 4.2.1 for Node.js uses a regular expression that is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). If an attacker provides a malicious string, is-svg will get stuck processing the input.

Recommendation

Update the is-svg package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 2.1.0, < 4.2.2
• Patched version(s): 4.2.2

References

• GHSA-7r28-3m3f-r2pr
• www.npmjs.com
• security.netapp.com
• CVE-2021-28092
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - ssri - CVE-2021-27290
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Prism - CVE-2021-32723
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) - color-string - CVE-2021-29060
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in ua-parser-js - CVE-2021-27292

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Tags:

npm

is-svg