CVE-2024-21538

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in cross-spawn

Description

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

Patch Available

Fix available through Seal Security.  
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Fix without upgrading

Score

7.5

Severity

High

Ecosystem

Java

Publish Date

November 8, 2024

Modified Date

February 3, 2026

Score Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Versions