CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2021-23567

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by a maintainer of colors to make the package unusable, other maintainers' controls over this package appear to have been revoked in an attempt to prevent them from fixing the issue.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

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-maintainer-pulls-the-plug-on-npm-packages-colors-and-faker-now-what/ Exploit Mitigation
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COLORS-2331906 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commit/074a0f8ed0c31c35d13d28632bd8a049ff136fb6%23diff-92bbac9a308cd5fcf9db165841f2d90ce981baddcb2b1e26cfff170929af3bd1R18 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285%23issuecomment-1008212640 Exploit Issue Tracking
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:colors.js_project:colors.js:1.4.44-liberty-2:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:colors.js_project:colors.js:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
Information

Published : 2022-01-14 08:15

Updated : 2022-01-21 07:08

NVD link : CVE-2021-23567

Mitre link : CVE-2021-23567

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-835