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CVE-2020-7753

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7753 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting all versions of the 'trim' package. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial of service by exploiting the trim() function with specially crafted input, requiring low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:trim_project:trim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0378 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (2)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: trimFixed in: 0.0.3
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShiftFixed in: openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-w5p7-h5w8-2hfqhigh

Regular Expression Denial of Service in trim

May 10, 2021
redhatCVE-2020-7753Moderate

nodejs-trim: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in trim function

Oct 27, 2020

References

github.com / component/trim/blob/master/index.js%23L6
Broken LinkThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r10faad1ef9166d37a1a5c9142b1af7099b8ecdc5ad05c51b8ea993d9%40%3Ccommits.airflow.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r51ff3c2a4c7b8402f321eae7e624672cc2295c7bc8c12c8b871f6b0b%40%3Ccommits.airflow.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r75b8d0b88833d7d96afcdce3ead65e212572ead4e7a9f34d21040196%40%3Ccommits.airflow.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rb8462df3b6484e778905c09cd49a8912e1a302659860017ebe36da03%40%3Ccommits.airflow.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rcc7c2865a52b544a8e49386c6880e9b9ab29bfce1052b5569d09ee4a%40%3Ccommits.airflow.apache.org%3E
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1022132
ExploitThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-TRIM-1017038
ExploitThird Party Advisory