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CVE-2021-23343

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-23343 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting all versions of the path-parse package, specifically through its splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe, and splitPathRe regular expressions. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a high availability impact due to its polynomial worst-case time complexity. While the attack vector is network-based and requires low attack complexity, there is no known active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.0.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:path-parse_project:path-parse:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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
2.22%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0222 is in the 66th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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 (33)

bitdefenderpatch availablevia llm_extracted
Fixed in: ['8.2.12', '9.0.6', '9.1.1']
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: path-parseFixed in: 1.0.7
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nodejs:14-8040020210817165654.522a0ee4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update SupportFixed in: nodejs:12-8010020210817113128.c27ad7f8
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update SupportFixed in: nodejs:12-8020020210817125332.4cda2c84
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs14-nodejs-0:14.17.5-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-0:12.22.5-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.3-5.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs14-nodejs-0:14.17.5-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-0:12.22.5-1.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs12-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.3-5.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization Engine 4.4Fixed in: ovirt-engine-ui-extensions-0:1.2.7-1.el8ev
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: RHACS-3.67-RHEL-8Fixed in: advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator:3.67.0-3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nodejs:12-8040020210817133458.522a0ee4
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Virtualization 4Fixed in: ovirt-web-ui
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-prometheus-rhel9
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-thanos-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/console-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/console-ui-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/console-header-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/mcm-topology-api-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/mcm-topology-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/search-ui-rhel8
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-console
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-grafana
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0Fixed in: kiali
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0Fixed in: servicemesh-prometheus
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/application-ui-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Fixed in: rhacm2/kui-web-terminal-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4Fixed in: ocs4/mcg-core-rhel8
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0Fixed in: servicemesh-grafana
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Fixed in: openshift4/ose-metering-hadoop

Vendor Advisories (3)

bitdefenderllm-bitdefender-2250a01bd7a7224eHIGH

August 2023 Third Party Package Updates in Splunk Enterprise

Aug 30, 2023
npmGHSA-hj48-42vr-x3v9medium

Regular Expression Denial of Service in path-parse

Aug 10, 2021
redhatCVE-2021-23343Low

nodejs-path-parse: ReDoS via splitDeviceRe, splitTailRe and splitPathRe

May 4, 2021

References

github.com / jbgutierrez/path-parse/issues/8
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r6a32cb3eda3b19096ad48ef1e7aa8f26e005f2f63765abb69ce08b85%40%3Cdev.myfaces.apache.org%3E
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1279028
ExploitThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JS-PATHPARSE-1077067
ExploitThird Party Advisory