Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types. Highcharts is NOT free for commercial use. See the license here: http://highcharts.com/license
In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.
CVE-2018-20801 - High Severity Vulnerability
Highcharts is a charting library written in pure JavaScript, offering an easy way of adding interactive charts to your web site or web application. Highcharts currently supports line, spline, area, areaspline, column, bar, pie and scatter chart types. Highcharts is NOT free for commercial use. See the license here: http://highcharts.com/license
path: /zerhuel-online-platform/xx_public/assets/themes/corastore/js/highcharts.js
Library home page: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highcharts/2.3.5/highcharts.js
Dependency Hierarchy: - :x: **highcharts-2.3.5.js** (Vulnerable Library)Found in HEAD commit: 1e7ed9360aae18468a87dbdbaa403bc0a139b035
In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.
Publish Date: 2019-03-14
URL: CVE-2018-20801
Base Score Metrics: - Exploitability Metrics: - Attack Vector: Network - Attack Complexity: Low - Privileges Required: None - User Interaction: None - Scope: Unchanged - Impact Metrics: - Confidentiality Impact: None - Integrity Impact: None - Availability Impact: High
For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.Type: Upgrade version
Origin: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20801
Release Date: 2019-03-14
Fix Resolution: 6.1.0
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