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Regular Expression Denial of Service in csv-parse

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 15, 2019 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

npm csv-parse (npm)

Affected versions

< 4.4.6

Patched versions

4.4.6

Description

Versions of csv-parse prior to 4.4.6 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service. The __isInt() function contains a malformed regular expression that processes large specially-crafted input very slowly, leading to a Denial of Service. This is triggered when using the cast option.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 4.4.6 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 14, 2019
Reviewed Oct 15, 2019
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 15, 2019
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.390%
(73rd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-17592

GHSA ID

GHSA-582f-p4pg-xc74

Source code

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