High severity · published Dec 20, 2021
CVE-2021-43843
jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX
7.5
CVSS
2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX. The maintainers found the patch for CVE-2021-43838 in jsx-slack v4.5.1 is insufficient tfor protection from a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. If an attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag _with including multibyte characters_, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. v4.5.1 passes the test against ASCII characters but misses the case of multibyte characters. jsx-slack v4.5.2 has updated regular expressions for escaping blockquote characters to prevent catastrophic backtracking. It is also including an updated test case to confirm rendering multiple tags in `<blockquote>` with multibyte characters.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.0% · higher than 80% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
JS
Jsx-slack · Jsx-slack Project
before 4.5.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43843
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-43843
Patch
https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/commit/46bc88391d89d5fda4ce689e18ca080bcdd29ecc
Release Notes
https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/releases/tag/v4.5.2
Exploit
https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q
Exploit
https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-hp68-xhvj-x6j6
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