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GHSA-mvrp-3cvx-c325 json

Zod denial of service vulnerability during email validation

published 3y ago modified 3y ago

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
—
no score, EPSS covers CVEs only
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

### Impact

API servers running `express-zod-api` having:

- version of `express-zod-api` below `10.0.0-beta1`, - and using the following (or similar) validation schema in its implementation: `z.string().email()`,

are vulnerable to a DoS attack due to:

- Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in `zod` versions up to `3.22.2`, - depending on `zod`.

### Patches

The patched version of `zod` fixing the vulnerability is `3.22.3`.

However, it's highly recommended to upgrade `express-zod-api` to at least version `10.0.0`, which does not depend on `zod` strictly and directly, but requires its installation as a peer dependency instead, enabling you to install the patched `zod` version yourself.

### Workarounds

When it's not possible to upgrade your dependencies, consider the following replacement in your implementation:

```diff - z.string().email() + z.string().regex( + /^(?!\.)(?!.*\.\.)([A-Z0-9_+-\.]*)[A-Z0-9_+-]@([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9\-]*\.)+[A-Z]{2,}$/i + ) ```

This regular expression is taken from the suggested patch of `zod`.

### References

- Original issue: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/issues/2609 - The patch: https://github.com/colinhacks/zod/pull/2824 - Entry in database: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4316 - Enumeration: https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html - Parent advisory: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m95q-7qp3-xv42 - Changelog entry for `express-zod-api` version `10.0.0-beta1`: https://github.com/RobinTail/express-zod-api/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v1000-beta1

Patch / fix

  • npm express-zod-api 10.0.0-beta1

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CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm express-zod-api
<10.0.0-beta1
10.0.0-beta1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

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