CVE-2021-39157GHSA-JQFH-8HW5-FQJR
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in detect-character-encoding
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 0.7.0
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
Summary
detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in detect-character-encoding v0.7.0. No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.
Timeline
- CVE published
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- sonicdoe detect-character-encoding
fixed in 0.7.0
- detect-character-encodingnpm
fixed in 0.7.0