CVE-2019-1010266 — lodash prior to 4

lodash prior to 4.17.11 is affected by: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: Date handler. The attack vector is: Attacker provides very long strings, which the library attempts to match using a regular expression. The fix

01What is this vulnerability?

lodash prior to 4.17.11 is affected by: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. The impact is: Denial of service. The component is: Date handler. The attack vector is: Attacker provides very long strings, which the library attempts to match using a regular expression. The fixed version is: 4.17.11.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
lodash	lodash	<4.17.11 [fixed: 4.7.11]

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-07-17T20:25:30.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-05T03:07:18.476Z

09References

• snyk.io — https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-LODASH-73639
• github.com — https://github.com/lodash/lodash/issues/3359
• github.com — https://github.com/lodash/lodash/wiki/Changelog
• security.netapp.com — https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190919-0004/