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GHSA-5PGG-2G8V-P4X9

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2024-04-05 06:30 – Updated: 2025-09-19 15:23

Summary

SheetJS Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Details

SheetJS Community Edition before 0.20.2 is vulnerable.to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

A non-vulnerable version cannot be found via npm, as the repository hosted on GitHub and the npm package xlsx are no longer maintained. Version 0.20.2 can be downloaded via https://cdn.sheetjs.com/.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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  "affected": [
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      "database_specific": {
        "last_known_affected_version_range": "\u003c 0.20.2"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "xlsx"
      },
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  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-22363"
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  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-04-08T13:47:03Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2024-04-05T06:15:10Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
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  "id": "GHSA-5pgg-2g8v-p4x9",
  "modified": "2025-09-19T15:23:24Z",
  "published": "2024-04-05T06:30:46Z",
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22363"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://cdn.sheetjs.com"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
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    },
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      "url": "https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://git.sheetjs.com/sheetjs/sheetjs"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://git.sheetjs.com/sheetjs/sheetjs/src/tag/v0.20.2"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "SheetJS Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)"
}

CVE-2024-22363 (GCVE-0-2024-22363)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-05 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-26 20:17

Summary

SheetJS Community Edition before 0.20.2 is vulnerable.to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

Severity

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-04-05 17:20 UTC

CWE

n/a
CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2327 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html
https://git.sheetjs.com/sheetjs/sheetjs/src/tag/v0.20.2
https://cdn.sheetjs.com/advisories/CVE-2024-22363

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
sheetjs	community_edition	Affected: 0 , < 0.20.2 (custom) cpe:2.3:a:sheetjs:community_edition::::::::

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