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DEBIAN-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 Ser...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 prototypejs

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.7.3-1"}]}]

Debian:13 prototypejs

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.7.3-1"}]}]

Debian:14 prototypejs

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.7.3-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org