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CVE-2020-26311

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-26311 describes a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting all versions of the useragent Node.js parser. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to trigger a denial of service by sending specially crafted input, as indicated by its CVSS score of 7.5 (High) with an availability impact. There are currently no known patches, active exploits, or publicly available exploit code, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:useragent_project:useragent:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

8.7HIGH

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:Green

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
NONE
VS Integrity
NONE
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.49%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
39.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0049 is in the 18th 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

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-mgfv-m47x-4wqpmedium

useragent Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Oct 26, 2024
redhatCVE-2020-26311Important

Useragent: GHSL-2020-312: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in useragent

Oct 26, 2024

References

github.com / 3rd-Eden/useragent/issues/167
Issue Tracking
securitylab.github.com / advisories/GHSL-2020-312-redos-useragent
ExploitThird Party Advisory