High
Security advisory
The css-what package 4.0.0 through 5.0.0 for Node.js does not ensure that attribute parsing has Linear Time Complexity relative to the size of the input.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-33587
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The css-what package 4.0.0 through 5.0.0 for Node.js does not ensure that attribute parsing has Linear Time Complexity relative to the size of the input.
osv:CVE-2021-33587
Complete source record
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