CVE-2021-23424: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

August 18, 2021 (updated August 4, 2022)

This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.

References

github.com/Tjatse/ansi-html/issues/19
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23424

Code Behaviors & Features

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