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CVE-2021-43843

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2021-12-20 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

jsx-slack is a package for building JSON objects for Slack block kit surfaces from JSX. The maintainers found the patch for CVE-2021-43838 in jsx-slack v4.5.1 is insufficient tfor protection from a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack. If an attacker can put a lot of JSX elements into `

` tag _with including multibyte characters_, an internal regular expression for escaping characters may consume an excessive amount of computing resources. v4.5.1 passes the test against ASCII characters but misses the case of multibyte characters. jsx-slack v4.5.2 has updated regular expressions for escaping blockquote characters to prevent catastrophic backtracking. It is also including an updated test case to confirm rendering multiple tags in `
` with multibyte characters.

Affected Platforms

Jsx-Slack Project Jsx-Slack

Weakness Type

CWE-400, CWE-1333, NVD-CWE-Other

References