CVE-2018-20801

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-20801
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-03-14 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-07-15 11:15:00 UTC
DescriptionIn js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-185

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Highcharts Highcharts All All All All
Application Highcharts Highcharts All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2018-20801 Highcharts Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in highcharts | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Refactored SVGRenderer text to not use backtracking regexes to replac… · highcharts/highcharts@7c547e1 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980787 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for highcharts (GHSA-xmc8-cjfr-phx3)

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