{"id":"CVE-2024-21538","title":"Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization","summary":"Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program…","severity":"high","cvss":7.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-1333","CWE-1333"],"published":"2024-11-08","updated":"2026-07-28","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-21538","references":[{"url":"https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/5ff3a07d9add449021d806e45c4168203aa833ff","label":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/commit/640d391fde65388548601d95abedccc12943374f","label":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://github.com/moxystudio/node-cross-spawn/pull/160","label":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-8366349","label":"report@snyk.io"},{"url":"https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CROSSSPAWN-8303230","label":"report@snyk.io"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00868,"epssPercentile":0.56947,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-28T16:37:02.985Z","slug":"CVE-2024-21538","body":"## Overview\n\nVersions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":41,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":41.3,"likelihood":0.2,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}