CVE-2021-40892

HIGH 7.5CVE-2021-40892 · Published 24/06/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-40892 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting validate color (validate color project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.2%, higher than 67.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
validate color validate_color_project	`= 2.1.0`	No fix yet

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) vulnerability was discovered in validate-color v2.1.0 when handling crafted invalid rgb(a) strings.

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