CVE-2018-20801

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    CVE-2018-20801

    Published: 14 Mar 2019Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.

    References: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/, https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa, https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -d00ad76b01a5fcd9e4eafe11fe7f6af9221ff431

    Affected versions

    v6.0.6
    v6.0.3
    v6.0.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High