CVE-2021-3822 – jsoneditor

Package

Manager: npm
Name: jsoneditor
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <9.5.6

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00334 pctl0.55653

Details

Regular Expression Denial of Service in jsoneditor JSON Editor is a web-based tool to view, edit, format, and validate JSON. It has various modes such as a tree editor, a code editor, and a plain text editor. The jsoneditor package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). An attacker that is able to provide a crafted element as input to the getInnerText function may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. Below pinned line using vulnerable regex.

Metadata

Created: 2021-09-29T17:15:55Z
Modified: 2022-05-04T03:39:38Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/09/GHSA-hhfg-6hfc-rvxm/GHSA-hhfg-6hfc-rvxm.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-1333", "CWE-400", "CWE-697"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-hhfg-6hfc-rvxm
Finding: F211
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