Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in ansi-html

HOCH 7.5CVE-2021-23424 · GHSA-whgm-jr23-g3j9 · Published 18/08/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

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CVE-2021-23424 ist eine Schwachstelle (HOCH (CVSS 7.5)) in ansi-html (ansi-html project), ansi-html.
Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Ausnutzung in den nächsten 30 Tagen (EPSS): 1.8%, höher als bei 78.2% aller Schwachstellen.
Abhilfe: auf 0.0.8 oder neuer aktualisieren.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ansi-html ansi-html_project	`< 0.0.8`	`0.0.8`
ansi-html npm	`< 0.0.8`	`0.0.8`

Description

This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.

NVD description

This affects all versions of package ansi-html. If an attacker provides a malicious string, it will get stuck processing the input for an extremely long time.

References

ioet/time-tracker-ui security advisory · WEB
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23424 · ADVISORY
Tjatse/ansi-html · WEB
Tjatse/ansi-html commit 8142b25 · WEB
Tjatse/ansi-html · PACKAGE
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1567198 · WEB
snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-ANSIHTML-1296849 · WEB

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