CVE-2022-25858

terser (JS Package) < 5.14.2 - Denial of Service

lowUncontrolled Resource Consumption
3.7
CVSS Score
3.7
CVSS Score
low
Severity
2.6.0
Patched in
558d
Time to patch

Description

The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions. Some WordPress plugins and themes use this dependency, however, are not vulnerable to exploitation.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
High
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability

Technical Details

Affected versions<=2.5.0
PublishedJuly 14, 2022
Last updatedJanuary 22, 2024
Affected pluginsimple-local-avatars

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