{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security-advisories@github.com", "ID": "CVE-2021-43838", "STATE": "PUBLIC", "TITLE": "Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in jsx-slack" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "jsx-slack", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "< 4.5.1" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "yhatt" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "jsx-slack is a library for building JSON objects for Slack Block Kit surfaces from JSX. In versions prior to 4.5.1 users are vulnerable to a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) attack. If attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `
` tag, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. jsx-slack v4.5.1 has patched to a regex for escaping blockquote characters. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible." } ] }, "impact": { "cvss": { "attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityImpact": "LOW", "baseScore": 5.3, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "NONE", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L", "version": "3.1" } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q" }, { "name": "https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/commit/36e4a10405e4c7745333e245fcc5029c02c7065d", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/commit/36e4a10405e4c7745333e245fcc5029c02c7065d" } ] }, "source": { "advisory": "GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q", "discovery": "UNKNOWN" } }