CVE-2021-23567
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
14/01/2022
Last modified:
21/01/2022
Description
The package colors after 1.4.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) that was introduced through an infinite loop in the americanFlag module. Unfortunately this appears to have been a purposeful attempt by a maintainer of colors to make the package unusable, other maintainers' controls over this package appear to have been revoked in an attempt to prevent them from fixing the issue. Vulnerable Code js for (let i = 666; i
Impact
Base Score 3.x
7.50
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:colors.js_project:colors.js:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* | ||
| cpe:2.3:a:colors.js_project:colors.js:1.4.44-liberty-2:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commit/074a0f8ed0c31c35d13d28632bd8a049ff136fb6%23diff-92bbac9a308cd5fcf9db165841f2d90ce981baddcb2b1e26cfff170929af3bd1R18
- https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285
- https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285%23issuecomment-1008212640
- https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-maintainer-pulls-the-plug-on-npm-packages-colors-and-faker-now-what/
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COLORS-2331906



