CVE-2021-4305

Summary

CVECVE-2021-4305
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-05 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:40:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability was found in Woorank robots-txt-guard. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function makePathPattern of the file lib/patterns.js. The manipulation of the argument pattern leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is c03827cd2f9933619c23894ce7c98401ea824020. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217448.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-1333

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Bridgeline Robots-txt-guard All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
vuldb.com MISC vuldb.com
vuldb.com MISC vuldb.com
Merge pull request #4 from Woorank/redos · Woorank/robots-txt-guard@c03827c · GitHub MISC github.com
Mitigate against Redos by Janpot · Pull Request #4 · Woorank/robots-txt-guard · GitHub MISC github.com
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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