Security Advisory

CVE-2021-43838

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-12-17 18:20:11
Last updated 2024-08-04 04:10:16
Assigner GitHub_M
State PUBLISHED

Description

jsx-slack is a library for building JSON objects for Slack Block Kit surfaces from JSX. In versions prior to 4.5.1 users are vulnerable to a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) attack. If attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. jsx-slack v4.5.1 has patched to a regex for escaping blockquote characters. Users are advised to upgrade as soon as possible.