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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2021-23362

medium Nessus Plugin ID 223653

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity. (CVE-2021-23362)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-23362

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 223653

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2021_23362.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 8/18/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-23362

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.8

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:nodejs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcs-snmp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pcs, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pcs-snmp, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:js-d3-flame-graph, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:js-d3-flame-graph, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:grafana-pcp, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:grafana-pcp, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:nodejs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/23/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-23362