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CVE-2020-7779

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-7779 describes a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting all versions of the djvalidator package. An attacker can exploit this by submitting specially crafted invalid email addresses, leading to a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, potentially causing significant availability impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or Nuclei modules, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:djvalidator_project:djvalidator:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0173 is in the 58th 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 (1)

npmGHSA-v6wh-2wvh-c8x5high

Regular Expression Denial of Service in djvalidator

Feb 9, 2022

References

snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-DJVALIDATOR-1018709
ExploitThird Party Advisory