CVE-2021-43843CWE-1333CWE-400

Insufficient patch for Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) to jsx-slack v4.5.1

Medium · published December 20, 2021

CVSS v3.1
5.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
80.4
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX. The maintainers found the patch for CVE-2021-43838 in jsx-slack v4.5.1 is insufficient tfor protection from a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. If an attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag _with including multibyte characters_, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. v4.5.1 passes the test against ASCII characters but misses the case of multibyte characters. jsx-slack v4.5.2 has updated regular expressions for escaping blockquote characters to prevent catastrophic backtracking. It is also including an updated test case to confirm rendering multiple tags in `<blockquote>` with multibyte characters.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01979 · 80.4th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity; CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2021-12-20T21:15Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 DEC 21:15Z
    Insufficient patch for Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) to jsx-slack v4.5.1
    cvelistv5