GHSA-8h55-q5qq-p685HighCVSS 7.5

(ReDoS) Regular Expression Denial of Service in tf2-item-format

Published
July 23, 2024
Last Modified
August 2, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-41655 →

📋 Description

Summary

Versions of tf2-item-format since at least 4.2.6 are vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack when parsing crafted user input.

Tested Versions

  • 5.9.13
  • 5.8.10
  • 5.7.0
  • 5.6.17
  • 4.3.5
  • 4.2.6

v5

Upgrade package to ^5.9.14

v4

No patch exists. Please consult the v4 to v5 migration guide to upgrade to v5.

If upgrading to v5 is not possible, fork the module repository and implement the fix detailed below.

Impact

This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to perform DoS attacks on any service that uses any tf2-item-format to parse user input.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/tf2-item-format:>= 4.2.6, <= 5.9.13

🔗 References (5)