Bugzilla – Bug 1224385
VUL-0: CVE-2024-4067: xpra-html5: the npm package `micromatch` is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Last modified: 2024-05-17 08:20:01 UTC
The NPM package `micromatch` is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). The vulnerability occurs in `micromatch.braces()` in `index.js` because the pattern `.*` will greedily match anything. By passing a malicious payload, the pattern matching will keep backtracking to the input while it doesn't find the closing bracket. As the input size increases, the consumption time will also increase until it causes the application to hang or slow down. There was a merged fix but further testing shows the issue persists. This issue should be mitigated by using a safe pattern that won't start backtracking the regular expression due to greedy matching. References: http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2024-4067 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-4067 https://devhub.checkmarx.com/cve-details/CVE-2024-4067/ https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/blob/2c56a8604b68c1099e7bc0f807ce0865a339747a/index.js#L448 https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/issues/243 https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/pull/247
Vulnerable versions of the micromatch package are embedded in: - openSUSE:Factory/xpra-html5 micromatch (4.0.5) Upstream issue: https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/issues/243
(In reply to Gabriele Sonnu from comment #1) > Vulnerable versions of the micromatch package are embedded in: > > - openSUSE:Factory/xpra-html5 micromatch (4.0.5) > > Upstream issue: > > https://github.com/micromatch/micromatch/issues/243 Talking with xpra-html5 upstream maintainer about this one too in: https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra-html5/issues/306
Hi Scott, I saw the maintainer answered that they're only used as commit hook and the like and they're not really shipped. I'd say both issues can be closed.