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Status published
Medium
CVE-2021-21252
Regular expression denial of service in jquery-validation
Vulnerability Description
The jQuery Validation Plugin provides drop-in validation for your existing forms. It is published as an npm package "jquery-validation". jquery-validation before version 1.19.3 contains one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service). This is fixed in 1.19.3.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/security/advisories/GHSA-jxwx-85vp-gvwm
- https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/pull/2371
- https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/commit/5d8f29eef363d043a8fec4eb86d42cadb5fa5f7d
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery-validation
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210219-0005/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/08/msg00040.html
Affected Vendor
jquery-validation
View all reports →Affected Software
jquery-validation
Vulnerable Versions:
< 1.19.3
Timeline
Official Publish:
January 13th, 2021
Last Modified:
August 3rd, 2024
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L