CVE-2020-27511

An issue was discovered in the stripTags and unescapeHTML components in Prototype 1.7.3 where an attacker can cause a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) through stripping crafted HTML tags.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/prototypejs/prototype

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/prototypejs/prototype

Events

Introduced

2a2fc85322b4715a9513c596e3131690125ab6e2

Last affected

2a2fc85322b4715a9513c596e3131690125ab6e2

Database specific

{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.7.3"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "1.7.3"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:prototypejs:prototype:1.7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

1.*

1.7.3

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-27511.json"