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Debian: CVE-2020-7760: codemirror-js -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2020-7760: codemirror-js -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/30/2020
Created
11/14/2020
Added
11/13/2020
Modified
05/16/2022

Description

This affects the package codemirror before 5.58.2; the package org.apache.marmotta.webjars:codemirror before 5.58.2. The vulnerable regular expression is located in https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/blob/cdb228ac736369c685865b122b736cd0d397836c/mode/javascript/javascript.jsL129. The ReDOS vulnerability of the regex is mainly due to the sub-pattern (s|/*.*?*/)*

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-codemirror-js

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