CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-20801

Incorrect Regular Expression

Published: Mar 14, 2019 | Modified: Jul 15, 2019
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product specifies a regular expression in a way that causes data to be improperly matched or compared.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Highcharts Highcharts * 6.1.0 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References