CVE-2021-39157 (GCVE-0-2021-39157)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-24 18:15 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in detect-character-encoding
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-755 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-enco… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-enco… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-enco… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| sonicdoe | detect-character-encoding |
Affected:
< 0.7.0
|
guessed |
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