PT-2021-22007 · Unknown · Jsoneditor

Published 2021-09-27 · Updated 2022-07-29 · CVE-2021-3822

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: jsoneditor (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue concerns Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity, specifically a ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) vulnerability. This allows an attacker to cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU by providing a crafted element as input to the getInnerText function. The jsoneditor package is a web-based tool used to view, edit, format, and validate JSON, offering various modes such as a tree editor, a code editor, and a plain text editor.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-697

CWE-1333

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-3822

GHSA-HHFG-6HFC-RVXM

Affected Products

Jsoneditor

References · 7

• 🔥 https://huntr.dev/bounties/1e3ed803-b7ed-42f1-a4ea-c4c75da9de73 · Exploit
• https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor/commit/092e386cf49f2a1450625617da8e0137ed067c3e · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-3822 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-hhfg-6hfc-rvxm · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3822 · Security Note
• https://github.com/josdejong/jsoneditor · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/29456 · Telegram Post