CVE-2021-39157CWE-755

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in detect-character-encoding

High · published August 24, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
2%
Percentile
81.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02068 · 81.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-755 · Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Published
2021-08-24T18:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 24 AUG 18:15Z
    Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in detect-character-encoding
    cvelistv5