PT-2019-10243

CVE-2018-20801

Published

2019-03-14

Updated

2019-07-15

Description by

CVSS 3.1

7.5

High

MetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Highcharts JS versions prior to 6.1.0

Description: The issue concerns a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component due to the use of backtracking regular expressions. Untrusted input may cause catastrophic backtracking while matching regular expressions, leading to the application being unresponsive and resulting in a denial of service.

Recommendations: For Highcharts JS versions prior to 6.1.0, upgrade to version 6.1.0 or higher.

Exploitability

Exploit

Fix

Impacts

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-185: Incorrect Regular Expression

CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Related identifiers

CVE-2018-20801