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CVE-2020-7753
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
High7.5EPSS 3.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- snyk
Description
All versions of package trim are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via trim().
Timeline
ID reserved
By snyk
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| snykCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.8% · top 10.0% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
- CWE-400 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-400 and its CVEs
Affected products
trim
- affected < unspecified
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (8)
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TRIM-1017038 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1022132 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/component/trim/blob/master/index.js%23L6 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [airflow-commits] 20210511 [GitHub] [airflow] kaxil opened a new pull request #15782: Bump ``trim`` to fix ``CVE-2020-7753`` (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [airflow-commits] 20210511 [GitHub] [airflow] ryanahamilton commented on pull request #15782: Bump ``trim`` to fix ``CVE-2020-7753`` (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [airflow-commits] 20210511 [GitHub] [airflow] kaxil closed pull request #15782: Bump ``trim`` to fix ``CVE-2020-7753`` (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [airflow-commits] 20210511 [GitHub] [airflow] github-actions[bot] commented on pull request #15782: Bump ``trim`` to fix ``CVE-2020-7753`` (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [airflow-commits] 20210511 [GitHub] [airflow] ryanahamilton closed pull request #15782: Bump ``trim`` to fix ``CVE-2020-7753`` (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w5p7-h5w8-2hfq (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2020-7753)Record last updated .