CVE-2021-3749 vulnerability in Axios and Other Products
Published on August 31, 2021
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in axios/axios
Weakness Type
What is a ReDoS Vulnerability?
The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. Some regular expression engines have a feature called "backtracking". If the token cannot match, the engine "backtracks" to a position that may result in a different token that can match. Backtracking becomes a weakness if all of these conditions are met:
CVE-2021-3749 has been classified to as a ReDoS vulnerability or weakness.
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Affected Versions
axios/axios:- Version unspecified, <= 0.21.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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