CVE-2021-23364 (GCVE-0-2021-23364)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-28 15:35 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:06
VLAI
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
The package browserslist from 4.0.0 and before 4.16.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) during parsing of queries.
Severity
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P
CWE
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a browserslist Affected: 4.0.0 , < unspecified (custom)
Affected: unspecified , < 4.16.5 (custom)
Date Public
2021-04-28 00:00
Credits
Yeting Li
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