CVE-2021-43843

Description

jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX. The maintainers found the patch for CVE-2021-43838 in jsx-slack v4.5.1 is insufficient tfor protection from a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. If an attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag _with including multibyte characters_, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. v4.5.1 passes the test against ASCII characters but misses the case of multibyte characters. jsx-slack v4.5.2 has updated regular expressions for escaping blockquote characters to prevent catastrophic backtracking. It is also including an updated test case to confirm rendering multiple tags in `<blockquote>` with multibyte characters.

Weakness classification

• security-advisories@github.com: CWE-400
• nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Primary references

• security-advisories@github.com — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• security-advisories@github.com — Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory