VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2024-21538

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.87%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2024-11-08
Last modified2026-07-28
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • report@snyk.io: CWE-1333
  • 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0: CWE-1333

Primary references