CVE-2021-40898 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) vulnerability affecting scaffold-helper v1.2.0, triggered when copying specially crafted invalid files. It carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity that can lead to a complete denial of service. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:scaffold-helper_project:scaffold-helper:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.