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CVE-2021-39157

7.5 highEPSS 2.1%

High (7.5) in detect-character-encoding project detect-character-encoding. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in detect-character-encoding 0.7.0.

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-755
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

Packages (OSV)

AdvisoryEcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
GHSA-jqfh-8hw5-fqjrnpmdetect-character-encoding<0.7.00.7.0

References

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