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CVE-2021-21252: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

January 13, 2021 (updated February 22, 2021)

The jQuery Validation Plugin provides drop-in validation for your existing forms. It is published as an npm package “jquery-validation”. jquery-validation contains one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service). This is fixed

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxwx-85vp-gvwm
  • github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/commit/5d8f29eef363d043a8fec4eb86d42cadb5fa5f7d
  • github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/pull/2371
  • github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/security/advisories/GHSA-jxwx-85vp-gvwm
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-21252
  • security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0005/
  • www.npmjs.com/package/jquery-validation

Code Behaviors & Features

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Affected versions

All versions before 1.19.3

Fixed versions

  • 1.19.3

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.19.3 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

npm/jquery-validation/CVE-2021-21252.yml

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