CVE-2024-21538

CVSS 8.7 HIGHEPSS 0.9%CWE-1333

Vexday Risk Score

21Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 8.7EPSS 0.9%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

08 Nov 2024Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Affected products

n/a · cross-spawn n/a · org.webjars.npm:cross-spawn

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References

https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349 https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230