CVE-2021-43838 MEDIUM

CVE-2021-43838: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in jsx-slack

Vendor Yhatt
Product jsx-slack
Weakness CWE-400
Published December 17, 2021
Last update August 4, 2024

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What the vulnerability does

01Description

jsx-slack is a library for building JSON objects for Slack Block Kit surfaces from JSX. In versions prior to 4.5.1 users are vulnerable to a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) attack. If attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. jsx-slack v4.5.1 has patched to a regex for escaping blockquote characters. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 17, 2021 CVE published
August 4, 2024 Record updated