CVE-2018-20801 (High) detected in highcharts.src-4.0.1.js

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CVE-2018-20801 - High Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - highcharts.src-4.0.1.js

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

Library home page: https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/highcharts/4.0.1/highcharts.src.js

Path to dependency file: /rubycritic/code_index.html

Path to vulnerable library: /rubycritic/assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/charts/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/seek/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/well-formed/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/ruby-eclipse-cheatsheets-to-dita/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/hashcheck/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/built-in-datatypes/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/scrapers/ruby/nokogiri/../../../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/ruby-strip/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js,/rubycritic/drivers/../assets/vendor/javascripts/highcharts.src-4.0.1.js

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ highcharts.src-4.0.1.js (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 8dbdb4a1170502df116e35d16ab172d26c02609e

Found in base branch: main

Vulnerability Details

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

CVSS 3 Score Details (7.5)

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.

Suggested Fix

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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[jbampton]

Needs fixing in the upstream:

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Awhitesmith%2Frubycritic+highcharts.src-4.0.1&type=code