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Low severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 17, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in jsx-slack

CVE-2021-43838

Description

jsx-slack is a library for building JSON objects for Slack Block Kit surfaces from JSX. In versions prior to 4.5.1 users are vulnerable to a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) attack. If attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `` tag, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. jsx-slack v4.5.1 has patched to a regex for escaping blockquote characters. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
jsx-slacknpm
< 4.5.14.5.1

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