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CVE-2021-39157

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2021-08-24 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

Affected Platforms

Detect-Character-Encoding Project Detect-Character-Encoding

Weakness Type

CWE-755, CWE-755

References