# CVE-2021-43843: Insufficient patch for Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) to jsx-slack v4.5.1

- Also known as: GHSA-HP68-XHVJ-X6J6
- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 4.5.2
- Published: 2021-12-20 · Updated: 2024-08-04

## Affected

- yhatt jsx-slack: fixed in 4.5.2
- jsx-slack (npm): fixed in 4.5.2

## Description

jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX. The maintainers found the patch for CVE-2021-43838 in jsx-slack v4.5.1 is insufficient tfor protection from a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. If an attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `<blockquote>` tag _with including multibyte characters_, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. v4.5.1 passes the test against ASCII characters but misses the case of multibyte characters. jsx-slack v4.5.2 has updated regular expressions for escaping blockquote characters to prevent catastrophic backtracking. It is also including an updated test case to confirm rendering multiple tags in `<blockquote>` with multibyte characters.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on yhatt jsx-slack, jsx-slack, upgrade to a fixed version (4.5.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-hp68-xhvj-x6j6
- https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q
- https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/commit/46bc88391d89d5fda4ce689e18ca080bcdd29ecc
- https://github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/releases/tag/v4.5.2

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