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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-33587

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.

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CVE-2021-33587
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31 Oct 2026, 11:49 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-33587

core-osv · Original source

Published 28 May 2021, 20:15 UTC

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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