PT-2021-15447
CVE-2021-23343
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Published
2021-05-04
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Updated
2022-05-17
Description by
CVSS 3.1
9.8
CriticalMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
path-parse versions all
Description
The issue is related to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via
splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions. ReDoS exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.Recommendations
For all versions, consider disabling the use of
splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions as a temporary workaround until a patch is available. Restrict the use of these regular expressions to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.Exploitability
Exploit
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