Bug 1995793 (CVE-2021-23425)

Summary:	CVE-2021-23425 nodejs-trim-off-newlines: ReDoS via string processing
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	extras-orphan, kaycoth, ldap-maint, michal.skrivanek, mperina, proguski, psegedy, sbonazzo, sgratch
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Doc Text:	A flaw was found in nodejs-trim-off-newlines. All versions of package trim-off-newlines are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via string processing. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2021-10-28 09:03:45 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1995794, 1996701, 1996702, 1997713
Bug Blocks:	1995796

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-08-19 18:51:02 UTC

All versions of package trim-off-newlines are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via string processing.

Reference:
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TRIMOFFNEWLINES-1296850

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-08-19 18:51:16 UTC

Created nodejs-trim-off-newlines tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-33 [bug 1995794]

Comment 6 Przemyslaw Roguski 2021-08-23 14:12:27 UTC

The affected code is:
https://github.com/stevemao/trim-off-newlines/blob/master/index.js#L6

there is no fix yet on the upstream side

Comment 7 juneau 2021-08-24 14:54:56 UTC

Marking hosted services 'notaffected.'
Packages present in nodejs package-lock.json but no references in code; appears this vulnerability is not exposed.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-26 16:22:08 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4

Via RHSA-2022:4711 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:4711