CVE-2018-20801

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5

Description

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2018-20801

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2019-03-14T16:29:00

Last Modified Date
2019-07-15T11:15:10

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-185	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/185.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:highcharts:highcharts::::::::	1	OR		6.1.0

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Integrity Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
5

Severity
MEDIUM

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
2.9

CVSS Version 3

Version
3.0

Vector String
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK

Attack Compatibility
LOW

Privileges Required
NONE

User Interaction
NONE

Scope
UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact
NONE

Availability Impact
HIGH

Base Score
7.5

Base Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
3.9

Impact Score
3.6

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20801
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20801

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 17:41:06				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 18:11:56	2019-03-14T16:29Z	2019-03-14T16:29:00	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-03 18:11:56		2019-07-15T11:15:10	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-03 18:11:56		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated