UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23362

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2021-23362

    Published: 23 Mar 2021Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2021-23362
    Aliases:
    USN-5216-1

    Summary:

    Details: The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23362, https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/bede0dc38e1785e732bf0a48ba6f81a4a908eba3, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1088356, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HOSTEDGITINFO-1088355, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5216-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-23362

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: node-hosted-git-info

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    2.1.5-1

    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
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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