CVE-2024-21538

cross-spawn: regular expression denial of service

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 3.1

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Published · November 8, 2024

Updated · October 31, 2026

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was found in the cross-spawn package for Node.js. Due to improper input sanitization, an attacker can increase CPU usage and crash the program with a large, specially crafted string.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 4.4
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity