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CVE-2019-20922

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-20922 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting Handlebars.js versions prior to 4.4.5. An attacker can exploit this by crafting malicious templates, causing the parser to enter an endless loop and exhaust system resources. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 4.0.0, < 4.4.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:handlebarsjs:handlebars:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.79%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0379 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (11)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: handlebarsFixed in: 4.4.5
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6Fixed in: openshift4/ose-logging-kibana6:v4.6.0-202106181629.p0.git.40f3e72
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8:v3.6.0-62
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4Fixed in: ovirt-web-ui-0:1.6.5-1.el8ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHPAM 7.13.1 asyncFixed in: handlebars
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 1Fixed in: servicemesh-grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: kibana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Fixed in: openshift3/grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: kibana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-grafana

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-62gr-4qp9-h98fhigh

Regular Expression Denial of Service in Handlebars

Feb 10, 2022
redhatCVE-2019-20922Moderate

nodejs-handlebars: an endless loop while processing specially-crafted templates leads to DoS

Nov 4, 2019

References

github.com / handlebars-lang/handlebars.js/commit/8d5530ee2c3ea9f0aee3fde310b9f36887d00b8b
PatchThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-HANDLEBARS-480388
Third Party Advisory
npmjs.com / advisories/1300
Third Party Advisory