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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in trim-newlines

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 7, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 29, 2023

Package

npm trim-newlines (npm)

Affected versions

< 3.0.1
= 4.0.0

Patched versions

3.0.1
4.0.1

Description

@rkesters/gnuplot is an easy to use node module to draw charts using gnuplot and ps2pdf. The trim-newlines package before 3.0.1 and 4.x before 4.0.1 for Node.js has an issue related to regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) for the .end() method.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 28, 2021
Reviewed Jun 1, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 7, 2021
Last updated Nov 29, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-33623

GHSA ID

GHSA-7p7h-4mm5-852v

Source code

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