Description
The package colors after 1.4.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) that was introduced through an infinite loop in the americanFlag module. Unfortunately this appears to have been a purposeful attempt by a maintainer of colors to make the package unusable, other maintainers' controls over this package appear to have been revoked in an attempt to prevent them from fixing the issue. Vulnerable Code js for (let i = 666; i < Infinity; i++;) { Alternative Remediation Suggested * Pin dependancy to 1.4.0
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COLORS-2331906
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commit/074a0f8ed0c31c35d13d28632bd8a049ff136fb6%23diff-92bbac9a308cd5fcf9db165841f2d90ce981baddcb2b1e26cfff170929af3bd1R18
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285%23issuecomment-1008212640
Exploit, Mitigation, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-maintainer-pulls-the-plug-on-npm-packages-colors-and-faker-now-what/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0059
EPSS Percentile
69.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-835
Status
published
Products (3)
colors.js_project/colors.js
1.4.1
colors.js_project/colors.js
1.4.44-liberty-2
npm/colors
1.4.1npm
Published
Jan 14, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026