Description
A vulnerability was found in Woorank robots-txt-guard. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function makePathPattern of the file lib/patterns.js. The manipulation of the argument pattern leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is c03827cd2f9933619c23894ce7c98401ea824020. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217448.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
technical-description
https://vuldb.com/?id.217448
Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217448
Patch, Third Party Advisory exploit
issue-tracking
https://github.com/Woorank/robots-txt-guard/pull/4
Patch, Third Party Advisory patch
https://github.com/Woorank/robots-txt-guard/commit/c03827cd2f9933619c23894ce7c98401ea824020
Scores
CVSS v3
3.5
EPSS
0.0094
EPSS Percentile
56.1%
Attack Vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1333
Status
published
Products (2)
bridgeline/robots-txt-guard
< 2021-02-07
npm/robots-txt-guard
0 - 1.0.2npm
Published
Jan 05, 2023
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026