CVE-2021-43838: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

December 17, 2021 (updated July 21, 2023)

jsx-slack is a library for building JSON objects for Slack Block Kit surfaces from JSX. users is vulnerable to a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) attack. If attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into <blockquote> tag, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. jsx-slack v4.5.1 has patched to a regex for escaping blockquote characters.

References

github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/commit/36e4a10405e4c7745333e245fcc5029c02c7065d
github.com/yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43838

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