PT-2020-7757 · Bleach · Bleach

Published 2020-09-01 · Updated 2020-09-01 · CVE-2014-8881

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.3

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions bleach (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns a regular expression denial of service attack that can occur when certain types of input are passed into the sanitize function.

Recommendations To mitigate this issue, consider using an alternative module that is actively maintained and provides similar functionality. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the sanitize function until an alternative solution is implemented.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8881

GHSA-MVMF-CVFX-QG55

Affected Products

Bleach

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mvmf-cvfx-qg55 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8881 · Security Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/47 · Note
• https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:bleach:20151024 · Note