CVE-2020-36649 — Regex Denial of Service in Papaparse

CWE-1333 — Regex Denial of ServiceCWE-185 — Incorrect Regular Expression6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 37.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
MediawikiPapaparseDebian Mediawiki+1 more
Timeline
PublishedJan 11

Description

A vulnerability was found in mholt PapaParse up to 5.1.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file papaparse.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Upgrading to version 5.2.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 235a12758cd77266d2e98fd715f53536b34ad621. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-218004.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages5 packages

▶CVEListV5mholt/papaparse5.0, 5.1+1
▶NVDpapaparse/papaparse5.1.0 — 5.2.0
▶npmpapaparse/papaparse< 5.2.0
▶debiandebian/mediawiki< mediawiki 1:1.39.4-1~deb12u1 (bookworm)
▶Debianmediawiki/mediawiki< 1:1.35.11-1~deb11u1+3

Patches

Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗Patch: github.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
CVE-2020-36649: A vulnerability was found in mholt PapaParse up to 5↗2023-01-11
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GHSA
Regular Expression Denial of Service in papaparse↗2020-09-04
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OSV
Regular Expression Denial of Service in papaparse↗2020-09-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
papaparse: RegExp used to detect numbers is vulnerable to ReDoS↗2023-01-11
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Debian
CVE-2020-36649: mediawiki - A vulnerability was found in mholt PapaParse up to 5.1.x. It has been classified...↗2020
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