CVE-2020-36830

low-risk

Published 2024-09-02

A vulnerability was found in nescalante urlregex up to 0.5.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file index.js of the component Backtracking. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 0.5.1 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is e5a085afe6abfaea1d1a78f54c45af9ef43ca1f9. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Do I need to act?

0.07% chance of exploitation

EPSS score — low exploit probability

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 4.3/10 Medium

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (1)

Urlregex

Affected Vendors

Nescalante

References (5)

Patch https://github.com/nescalante/urlregex/commit/e5a085afe6abfaea1d1a78f54c45af9ef4...

Exploit https://github.com/nescalante/urlregex/pull/8

Release Notes https://github.com/nescalante/urlregex/releases/tag/v0.5.1

Permissions Required https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.276269

Third Party Advisory https://vuldb.com/?id.276269

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low-risk

Severity 18/34 · Moderate

Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal

Exposure 5/34 · Minimal