CVE-2021-36716

CVSS V2 Medium 5 CVSS V3 High 7.5

Description

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the Segment is-email package before 1.0.1 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to provide crafted input to the isEmail(input) function may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2021-36716

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Analyzed

Published Version
2021-07-14T16:15:07

Last Modified Date
2022-05-03T16:04:40

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-400	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:segment:is-email::::::node.js::*	1	OR		1.0.1

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
3.1

Vector String
CVSS:3.1/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://github.com/segmentio/is-email/releases	Release Notes Third Party Advisory
https://segment.com/docs/release_notes/2021-07-13-cve-2021-36716/	Vendor Advisory

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36716
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-36716

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-08 06:19:48				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-05 06:06:28	2021-07-14T16:15Z	2021-07-14T16:15:07	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-05 06:06:28		2022-05-03T16:04:40	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-05 06:06:28		Analyzed	Vulnerability Status	updated