# CVE-2020-26310: GHSL-2020-305: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Pure JavaScript HTML5 Parser

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Green
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-10-26 · Updated: 2024-10-28

## Affected

- blowsie Pure-JavaScript-HTML5-Parser: 0

## Description

Validate.js provides a declarative way of validating javascript objects. All versions as of 30 November 2020 contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). As of time of publication, it is unknown if any patches are available.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on blowsie Pure-JavaScript-HTML5-Parser, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-305-redos-Pure-JavaScript-HTML5-Parser/
- https://github.com/blowsie/Pure-JavaScript-HTML5-Parser/issues/14

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