PT-2019-10243 · Highcharts · Highcharts Js

Published 2019-03-14 · Updated 2019-07-15 · CVE-2018-20801

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Highcharts JS versions prior to 6.1.0

Description: The issue concerns a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component due to the use of backtracking regular expressions. Untrusted input may cause catastrophic backtracking while matching regular expressions, leading to the application being unresponsive and resulting in a denial of service.

Recommendations: For Highcharts JS versions prior to 6.1.0, upgrade to version 6.1.0 or higher.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-185

CWE-1333

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-20801

GHSA-XMC8-CJFR-PHX3

Affected Products

Highcharts Js

References · 10

• 🔥 https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225 · Exploit
• https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-20801 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20801 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-xmc8-cjfr-phx3 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xmc8-cjfr-phx3 · Note
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20801 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/793 · Note