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🛡️ GHSA-xx4c-jj58-r7x6 — validator (CVE-2021-3765)

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1333 OSV
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Description

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Validator.js

Impact

Versions of validator prior to 13.7.0 are affected by an inefficient Regular Expression complexity when using the rtrim and trim sanitizers.

Patches

The problem has been patched in validator 13.7.0

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability low.

Weakness class

GHSA-xx4c-jj58-r7x6 is classified as CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. A regular expression backtracks catastrophically on crafted input, consuming CPU out of proportion to input size.

Affected software

GHSA-xx4c-jj58-r7x6 is recorded against 1 package.

  • validator

Timeline and source

Published on 19 November 2021 and last revised on 12 July 2022. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
huntr.dev (Web)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE CWE-1333
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2021-11-19
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2022-07-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
validator — —

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