Skip to main content

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2020-28469

Severity High
Score 7.5/10

Summary

In glob-parent prior to 5.1.2 the way that the `enclosure` regex in `index.js` is defined could allow an attacker to exploit it, and cause a Denial of Service (ReDoS). This has been fixed in version 5.1.2.

  • 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.

Advisory Timeline

  • Published