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Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

CVE-2021-39157

High
7.5/10

Summary

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • HIGH

CWE-755 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

The software does not handle or incorrectly handles an exceptional condition.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published