CVE-2021-43306 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the jquery-validation npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the url2 method

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

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 0.00769.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Jqueryvalidation	Jquery Validation

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:jqueryvalidation:jquery_validation:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-6077	An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the jquery-validation npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the url2 method
Github GHSA	GHSA-j9m2-h2pv-wvph	Regular expression denial of service in jquery-validation

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/jquery-validation-redos-xray-211348/

History

Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.01082}`	epss `{'score': 0.01193}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: JFROG

Published: 2022-06-01T16:47:27.576755Z

Updated: 2024-09-16T23:56:26.165Z

Reserved: 2021-11-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2021-43306

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-06-02T14:15:30.923

Modified: 2024-11-21T06:29:02.997

Link: CVE-2021-43306

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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