UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7760

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-7760
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7760.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7760
Upstream
Published
2020-10-30T11:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:48:19Z
Severity
  • 5.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

This affects the package codemirror before 5.58.2; the package org.apache.marmotta.webjars:codemirror before 5.58.2. The vulnerable regular expression is located in https://github.com/codemirror/CodeMirror/blob/cdb228ac736369c685865b122b736cd0d397836c/mode/javascript/javascript.jsL129. The ReDOS vulnerability of the regex is mainly due to the sub-pattern (s|/.?/)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / codemirror-js

Package

Name
codemirror-js
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/codemirror-js@5.4.0-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.4.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjs-codemirror",
            "binary_version": "5.4.0-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7760.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / codemirror-js

Package

Name
codemirror-js
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/codemirror-js@5.19.0-1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.4.0-1
5.19.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjs-codemirror",
            "binary_version": "5.19.0-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7760.json"

Ubuntu:20.04:LTS / codemirror-js

Package

Name
codemirror-js
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/codemirror-js@5.51.0-1?arch=source&distro=focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.43.0-1
5.49.2-1
5.50.2-1
5.51.0-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libjs-codemirror",
            "binary_version": "5.51.0-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-7760.json"