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Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Prism

High
RunDevelopment published GHSA-gj77-59wh-66hg Jun 28, 2021

Package

npm prismjs (npm)

Affected versions

<1.24

Patched versions

1.24

Description

Some languages before 1.24.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

Impact

When Prism is used to highlight untrusted (user-given) text, an attacker can craft a string that will take a very very long time to highlight. Do not use the following languages to highlight untrusted text.

  • ASCIIDoc
  • ERB

Other languages are not affected and can be used to highlight untrusted text.

Patches

This problem has been fixed in Prism v1.24.

References

Severity

High

CVE ID

CVE-2021-32723

Weaknesses