vulnerability
Red Hat: CVE-2024-21538: cross-spawn: regular expression denial of service
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | (AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Nov 8, 2024 | Jul 9, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Nov 8, 2024
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 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
no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
References
Rapid7 Labs
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