CVE-2024-21538

HIGH

NPM Cross-spawn < 7.0.5 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0007
EPSS Percentile 20.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-1333
Status published
Products (4)
n/a/cross-spawn < 6.0.6
n/a/cross-spawn 7.0.0 - 7.0.5
n/a/org.webjars.npm:cross-spawn < 7.0.6
npm/cross-spawn 7.0.0 - 7.0.5npm
Published Nov 08, 2024
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026