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CVE-2024-21538

HIGH
Published 2024-11-08T05:00:04.695Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2023.03.01
0.000
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-01-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.178
Higher than 17.8% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
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.

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

Related News

No news articles found for this CVE.

Affected Products

cross-spawn

cross-spawn

Affected Versions:

0

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn

GHSA-3xgq-45jj-v275

Advisory Details

Versions of the package cross-spawn 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.

Affected Packages

npm cross-spawn
ECOSYSTEM: ≥7.0.0 <7.0.5
npm cross-spawn
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <6.0.6

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

References

ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21538
WEB https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/issues/165
WEB https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160
WEB https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff
WEB https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f
WEB https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/d35c865b877d2f9ded7c1ed87521c2fdb689c8dd
PACKAGE https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn
WEB https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349
WEB https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: November 8, 2024, Modified: May 19, 2025

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
Published: 2024-11-08T05:00:04.695Z
Last Modified: 2025-05-20T14:38:35.942Z
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