CVE-2020-36649
Regular Expression Denial of Service in papaparse
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.43%
Description
A vulnerability was found in mholt PapaParse up to 5.1.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file papaparse.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Upgrading to version 5.2.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 235a12758cd77266d2e98fd715f53536b34ad621. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-218004.
How to fix CVE-2020-36649
To remediate CVE-2020-36649, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1:1.35.11-1~deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 5.2.0 or later
Is CVE-2020-36649 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 1:1.35.11-1~deb11u1
- from 0, < 5.2.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |