Regular Expression Denial of Service in jsoneditor
Moderate severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Sep 29, 2021
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Nov 29, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Sep 27, 2021
Reviewed
Sep 28, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Sep 29, 2021
Last updated
Nov 29, 2023
JSON Editor is a web-based tool to view, edit, format, and validate JSON. It has various modes such as a tree editor, a code editor, and a plain text editor. The jsoneditor package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service). An attacker that is able to provide a crafted element as input to the getInnerText function may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU. Below pinned line using vulnerable regex.
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