The package colors after 1.4.0 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) that was introduced through an infinite loop in the americanFlag module. Unfortunately this appears to have been a purposeful attempt by a maintainer of colors to make the package unusable, other maintainers' controls over this package appear to have been revoked in an attempt to prevent them from fixing the issue. Vulnerable Code js for (let i = 666; i < Infinity; i++;) { Alternative Remediation Suggested * Pin dependancy to 1.4.0
References
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https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/commit/074a0f8ed0c31c35d13d28632bd8a049ff136fb6%23diff-92bbac9a308cd5fcf9db165841f2d90ce981baddcb2b1e26cfff170929af3bd1R18 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://github.com/Marak/colors.js/issues/285%23issuecomment-1008212640 | Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory |
https://snyk.io/blog/open-source-maintainer-pulls-the-plug-on-npm-packages-colors-and-faker-now-what/ | Exploit Mitigation Third Party Advisory |
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COLORS-2331906 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: snyk
Published: 2022-01-14T00:00:00
Updated: 2022-01-14T20:05:12
Reserved: 2021-01-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-23567
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2022-01-14T20:15:10.157
Modified: 2022-01-21T19:08:03.837
Link: CVE-2021-23567
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CWE