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Vulnerability · Published Jan 14, 2022 · Assigned by snyk

CVE-2021-23567Denial of Service (DoS)

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in colors. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.7% (higher than 78% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.5High
Exploit odds (30 days)1.7%top 22.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The package colors after 1.4.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) that was introduced through an infinite loop in the americanFlag module. Unfortunately this appears to have been a purposeful attempt by a maintainer of colors to make the package unusable, other maintainers' controls over this package appear to have been revoked in an attempt to prevent them from fixing the issue. Vulnerable Code js for (let i = 666; i < Infinity; i++;) { Alternative Remediation Suggested * Pin dependancy to 1.4.0

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
npmcolorsno fix listedGHSA-gh88-3pxp-6fm8

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a colors next of 1.4.0 – before unspecified

References