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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2021-43843 EUVD-2022-0618GHSA-hp68-xhvj-x6j6

Insufficient patch for Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) to jsx-slack v4.5.1

Published Dec 20, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX. The maintainers found the patch for CVE-2021-43838 in jsx-slack v4.5.1 is insufficient tfor protection from a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. If an attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag _with including multibyte characters_, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. v4.5.1 passes the test against ASCII characters but misses the case of multibyte characters. jsx-slack v4.5.2 has updated regular expressions for escaping blockquote characters to prevent catastrophic backtracking. It is also including an updated test case to confirm rendering multiple tags in `<blockquote>` with multibyte characters.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
yhatt jsx-slack < 4.5.2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm jsx-slack < 4.5.2 4.5.2 GHSA-hp68-xhvj-x6j6

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