High severity · published Aug 31, 2021
CVE-2021-3749
axios is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
7.5
CVSS
8.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)8.5% · higher than 95% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AX
Axios · Axios
through 0.21.1 · source: NVD
GO
Goldengate · Oracle
21.1 before 21.7.0.0.0 · source: NVD
SI
Sinec Ins · Siemens
before 1.0; 1.0; 1.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3749
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3749
Third Party Advisory
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-637483.pdf
Patch
https://github.com/axios/axios/commit/5b457116e31db0e88fede6c428e969e87f290929
Exploit
https://huntr.dev/bounties/1e8f07fc-c384-4ff9-8498-0690de2e8c31
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r075d464dce95cd13c03ff9384658edcccd5ab2983b82bfc72b62bb10%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r216f0fd0a3833856d6a6a1fada488cadba45f447d87010024328ccf2%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r3ae6d2654f92c5851bdb73b35e96b0e4e3da39f28ac7a1b15ae3aab8%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
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