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CVE-2020-7760 json

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-4gw3-8f77-f72c , EUVD-2021-0941

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.3%
EPSS 5.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 92%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

This affects the package codemirror before 5.58.2; the package org.apache.marmotta.webjars:codemirror before 5.58.2. The vulnerable regular expression is located in https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/blob/cdb228ac736369c685865b122b736cd0d397836c/mode/javascript/javascript.jsL129. The ReDOS vulnerability of the regex is mainly due to the sub-pattern (s|/*.*?*/)*

Patch / fix

  • npm codemirror 5.58.2
  • n/a codemirror 5.58.2
  • n/a org.apache.marmotta.webjars:codemirror 5.58.2
  • codemirror-js Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 5.58.2+~cs0.23.101-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-7760

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-7760 updated cvss 7.5

codemirror: ReDoS in tokenBase function in javascript.js

  • Red Hat Ansible Tower 3 codemirror, angular-codemirror
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 jenkins Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 jenkins
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

5.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CODEMIRROR-1016937 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1024445 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBCOMPONENTS-1024446 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1024447 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBCODEMIRROR-1024448 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARS-1024449 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • snyk.io https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGAPACHEMARMOTTAWEBJARS-1024450 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm codemirror
<5.58.2
5.58.2

Affected products

  • n/a codemirror
  • n/a org.apache.marmotta.webjars:codemirror

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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