CVSS 3.1
5.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:LCVE-2021-23362
Medium (5.3). EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in hosted-git-info 2.8.9, 3.0.8.
The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.
Severity
- EPSS
- 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 89% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-1333
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- npmjs:hosted-git-info
- siemens:sinec_infrastructure_network_services
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-43f8-2h32-f4cj | npm | hosted-git-info | <2.8.9 | 2.8.9 |
| GHSA-43f8-2h32-f4cj | npm | hosted-git-info | >=3.0.0 <3.0.8 | 3.0.8 |
References
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
- https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/29adfe5ef789784c861b2cdeb15051ec2ba651a7
- https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/8d4b3697d79bcd89cdb36d1db165e3696c783a01
- https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/bede0dc38e1785e732bf0a48ba6f81a4a908eba3
- https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commits/v2