CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-23364

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: Apr 28, 2021 | Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The package browserslist from 4.0.0 and before 4.16.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) during parsing of queries.

Weakness

The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
BrowserslistBrowserslist_project4.0.0 (including)4.16.5 (excluding)
Red Hat Quay 3RedHatquay/quay-rhel8:v3.6.0-62*
Node-browserslistUbuntubionic*
Node-browserslistUbuntufocal*
Node-browserslistUbuntugroovy*
Node-browserslistUbuntuhirsute*
Node-browserslistUbuntuimpish*
Node-browserslistUbuntukinetic*
Node-browserslistUbuntuupstream*

Potential Mitigations

References