vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-21538: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Nov 8, 2024 | Aug 8, 2025 | Dec 5, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 8, 2024
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 5, 2025
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.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-npm
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