CVE-2024-21538

high

Description

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349

https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160

https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f

https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2024-11-08

Updated: 2025-05-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

CVSS v4

Base Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0037