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CVE-2021-3765
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in validatorjs/validator.js
Medium5.3EPSS 1.8%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- @huntrdev
Description
validator.js is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| @huntrdevCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| 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)
- 1.8% · top 21% 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: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
validatorjs · validatorjs/validator.js
- affected unspecified – < 13.7.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmvalidatorGHSA-qgmg-gppg-76g5 (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://huntr.dev/bounties/c37e975c-21a3-4c5f-9b57-04d63b28cfc9 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/validatorjs/validator.js/commit/496fc8b2a7f5997acaaec33cc44d0b8dba5fb5e1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-qgmg-gppg-76g5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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