Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-4299

Medium

Published: 02 January 2023

Published
02 January 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 4.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0049 66.1th percentile
Risk Priority 9 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-4299 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in String Kit Project String Kit. Its CVSS base score is 4.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 33.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in cronvel string-kit up to 0.12.7. This vulnerability affects the function naturalSort of the file lib/naturalSort.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack can be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version…

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0.12.8 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 9cac4c298ee92c1695b0695951f1488884a7ca73. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217180.

CWE(s)
CWE-1333

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

string kit project
string kit
≤ 0.12.8

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

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