Buffer Overflow Affecting org.webjars.npm:validator package, versions (,5.0.0)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
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- published 18 Feb 2018
- disclosed 18 Feb 2016
- credit Guillaume Leclerc
Introduced: 18 Feb 2016
CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-185 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade validator
to version 5.0.0 or higher.
Overview
validator
is a library of string validators and sanitizers.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. It used a regular expression (/^(?:[A-Z0-9+\/]{4})*(?:[A-Z0-9+\/]{2}==|[A-Z0-9+\/]{3}=|[A-Z0-9+\/]{4})$/i
) in order to validate Base64 strings.