CVE-2021-43838

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in jsx-slack

Published Dec 17, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 1.4% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-2445 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in jsx-slack
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 4, 2024, 4:10 AM
Reserved
Nov 16, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 17, 2021, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 4:11 AM