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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-23343

All versions of package path-parse are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions. ReDoS exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.

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31 Oct 2026, 11:40 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-23343

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 May 2021, 09:15 UTC

All versions of package path-parse are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions. ReDoS exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.

osv:CVE-2021-23343
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-23343",
  "method": "structured",
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    "title": "CVE-2021-23343",
    "summary": "All versions of package path-parse are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions. ReDoS exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.",
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    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      ],
      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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      ],
      "affected": [
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            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:31.974933267Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6a32cb3eda3b19096ad48ef1e7aa8f26e005f2f63765abb69ce08b85%40%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E",
        "https://github.com/jbgutierrez/path-parse/issues/8",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1279028",
        "https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PATHPARSE-1077067"
      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 385495,
  "published_at": "2021-05-04T09:15:07.703+00:00"
}