CVE-2021-4305

A vulnerability was found in Woorank robots-txt-guard. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function makePathPattern of the file lib/patterns.js. The manipulation of the argument pattern leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is c03827cd2f9933619c23894ce7c98401ea824020. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217448.

CVSS v3.0 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://vuldb.com/?id.217448	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Woorank/robots-txt-guard/commit/c03827cd2f9933619c23894ce7c98401ea824020	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Woorank/robots-txt-guard/pull/4	Patch Third Party Advisory
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217448	Permissions Required Third Party Advisory

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Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:bridgeline:robots-txt-guard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2023-01-05 03:15

Updated : 2023-01-11 11:20

NVD link : CVE-2021-4305

Mitre link : CVE-2021-4305

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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Products Affected

bridgeline

robots-txt-guard

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