CVE-2018-20801

HIGH

Highcharts < 6.1.0 - Denial of Service via ReDoS in SVGRenderer

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In 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.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0317
EPSS Percentile 86.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-185
Status published
Products (2)
highcharts/highcharts < 6.1.0
npm/highcharts 0 - 6.1.0npm
Published Mar 14, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026