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GHSA-mvmf-cvfx-qg55

MediumCVSS 5.3 / 10
Published Sep 1, 2020·Last modified Nov 8, 2023
Affected Components(0)

No affected components available

Description

All versions of the bleach package are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service attack when certain types of input are passed into the sanitize function.

Recommendation

The bleach package is not currently maintained, and has not seen an update since 2014.

To mitigate this issue, it is necessary to use an alternative module that is actively maintained and provides similar functionality. There are multiple modules fitting this criteria available on npm..

Risk Scores
Base Score
5.3

The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a low impact on the availability of the system.

Threat Intelligence
4.9

Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.

EPSS
N/A

Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Exploit
Not available

We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.

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