CVE-2021-43843

MEDIUM

jsx-slack <4.5.1 - DoS

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX. The maintainers found the patch for CVE-2021-43838 in jsx-slack v4.5.1 is insufficient tfor protection from a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. If an attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag _with including multibyte characters_, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. v4.5.1 passes the test against ASCII characters but misses the case of multibyte characters. jsx-slack v4.5.2 has updated regular expressions for escaping blockquote characters to prevent catastrophic backtracking. It is also including an updated test case to confirm rendering multiple tags in `<blockquote>` with multibyte characters.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-hp68-xhvj-x6j6
Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/releases/tag/v4.5.2

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0056
EPSS Percentile 68.4%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-1333 CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
jsx-slack_project/jsx-slack < 4.5.2
npm/jsx-slack 0 - 4.5.2npm
Published Dec 20, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026