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CVE-2020-26256GHSA-8CV5-P934-3HWP

Denial of service in fast-csv

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 4.3.6
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Fast-csv is an npm package for parsing and formatting CSVs or any other delimited value file in node. In fast-cvs before version 4.3.6 there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability (Regular Expression Denial of Service) when using ignoreEmpty option when parsing. This has been patched in `v4.3.6` You will only be affected by this if you use the `ignoreEmpty` parsing option. If you do use this option it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest version `v4.3.6` This vulnerability was found using a CodeQL query which identified `EMPTY_ROW_REGEXP` regular expression as vulnerable.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • C2FO fast-csv

    fixed in 4.3.6

  • fast-csvnpm

    fixed in 4.3.6

  • @fast-csv/parsenpm

    fixed in 4.3.6

References 6

GitHub · C2FO/fast-csv

lgtm.com

npmjs.com