CVE-2021-39157

HIGH

Detect-character-encoding < 0.7.0 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule

Description

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

References (3)

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/992a11007fff6cfd40b952150ab8d30410c4a20a

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/issues/15

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/security/advisories/GHSA-jqfh-8hw5-fqjr

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0053

EPSS Percentile 66.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-755

Status published

Affected Products (2)

detect-character-encoding_project/detect-character-encoding < 0.7.0

npm/detect-character-encoding < 0.7.0npm

Timeline

Published Aug 24, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026