Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) - color-string

Description

In the npm package color-string, there is a ReDos (Regular Expression Denial of Service) vulnerability regarding an exponential time complexity for linearly increasing input lengths for hwb() color strings.

Recommendation

Update the color-string package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.5.5
• Patched version(s): 1.5.5

References

• GHSA-257v-vj4p-3w2h
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2021-29060
• CWE-770
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• html-parse-stringify and html-parse-stringify2 vulnerable to Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) - CVE-2021-23346
• html-parse-stringify and html-parse-stringify2 vulnerable to Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) - html-parse-stringify - CVE-2021-23346
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (REDoS) in Marked - CVE-2021-21306
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Prism - CVE-2021-32723

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Tags:

npm

color-string