CVE-2024-21538 (GCVE-0-2024-21538)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-11-08 05:00 – Updated: 2026-08-07 15:25
VLAI
Summary
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-11-08 14:54 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a cross-spawn Affected: 0 , < 6.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 7.0.0 , < 7.0.5 (semver)
n/a org.webjars.npm:cross-spawn Affected: 0 , < 6.0.6 (semver)
Affected: 7.0.2 , < 7.0.6 (semver)
cross-spawn cross-spawn Affected: 0 , < 7.0.5 (custom)
    cpe:2.3:a:cross-spawn:cross-spawn:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Rongchen Li
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