What is GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96?

GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. prismjs Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96 cover?

GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2021-3801. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96?

GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96?

GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96 affects 1 product, including: npm/prismjs:\u003c 1.25.0.

GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96MediumCVSS 6.5

prismjs Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 20, 2021

Last Modified

January 29, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-3801 →

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

npm/prismjs:< 1.25.0

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3801
https://github.com/prismjs/prism/commit/0ff371bb4775a131634f47d0fe85794c547232f9
https://huntr.dev/bounties/8c16ab31-6eb6-46d1-b9a4-387222fe1b8a
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqhp-5p83-hx96