josdejong/jsoneditor · Security
Regular Expression Denial of Service in jsoneditor
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hhfg-6hfc-rvxm
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-3822
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 5.3 · CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Description
JSON Editor is a web-based tool to view, edit, format, and validate JSON. It has various modes such as a tree editor, a code editor, and a plain text editor. The jsoneditor package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). An attacker that is able to provide a crafted element as input to the getInnerText function may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. Below pinned line using vulnerable regex.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-697 · Incorrect Comparison
- CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity