prismjs/prism · Security
prismjs Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-3801
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Description
Prism is a syntax highlighting library. The prismjs package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). An attacker that is able to provide a crafted HTML comment as input may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption