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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in minimatch

CVE-2022-3517

  • minimatch
  • org.webjars.bower:minimatch
  • org.webjars.npm:minimatch
High
7.5/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package versions prior to 3.0.5. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the "braceExpand" function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published