| Name | CVE-2021-21252 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
| NVD severity | medium |
| Debian Bugs | 980891, 980892 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| civicrm (PTS) | bullseye, sid | 5.33.2+dfsg1-1 | vulnerable |
| otrs2 (PTS) | buster/non-free | 6.0.16-2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye/non-free, sid/non-free | 6.0.32-4 | fixed |
| stretch/non-free (security), stretch/non-free | 5.0.16-1+deb9u6 | vulnerable |
| phpmyadmin (PTS) | stretch | 4:4.6.6-4+deb9u1 | vulnerable |
| stretch (security) | 4:4.6.6-4+deb9u2 | vulnerable |
| bullseye, sid | 4:5.0.4+dfsg2-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bullseye] - civicrm <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[buster] - otrs2 <ignored> (Non-free not supported)
[stretch] - otrs2 <ignored> (Non-free not supported)
[stretch] - phpmyadmin <no-dsa> (Minor issue; barely an issue in the phpmyadmin package)
https://github.com/jquery-validation/jquery-validation/security/advisories/GHSA-jxwx-85vp-gvwm
not packaged, but civicrm, otrs2, and phpmyadmin embed a copy
https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/commit/401eedd288c4e83d69287b97a9f574f231156171