CVE-2022-21222 (GCVE-0-2022-21222)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-09-30 05:05
Modified
2025-05-20 16:04
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
The package css-what before 2.1.3 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to the usage of insecure regular expression in the re_attr variable of index.js. The exploitation of this vulnerability could be triggered via the parse function.
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