vulnerability

Amazon Linux 2023: CVE-2024-21538: Medium priority package update for nodejs20 (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 8, 2024
Added
Feb 17, 2025
Modified
Jul 4, 2025

Description

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.
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was found in the cross-spawn package for Node.js. Due to improper input sanitization, an attacker can increase CPU usage and crash the program with a large, specially crafted string.

Solutions

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