CVE-2021-23424 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.

Published: 2021-08-18

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

ansi-html

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< unspecified

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ansi-html_project:ansi-html:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-2126	This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.
Github GHSA	GHSA-whgm-jr23-g3j9	Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in ansi-html

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00156.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/Tjatse/ansi-html/issues/19
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23424
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1567198
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANSIHTML-1296849
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23424

History

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Subscriptions

Ansi-html Project Ansi-html

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: snyk

Published: 2021-08-18T16:15:17.036Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T17:38:46.238Z

Reserved: 2021-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-23424

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-08-18T17:15:07.990

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:51:44.043

Link: CVE-2021-23424

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2021-05-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2021-23424 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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