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CVE-2021-43838

21
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-43838 is a Regular Expression Denial-of-Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting jsx-slack versions prior to 4.5.1, a library used for building Slack Block Kit JSON objects from JSX. An attacker can trigger this by injecting a large number of JSX elements within a 'blockquote' tag, causing an internal regular expression to consume excessive computing resources. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially leading to a denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 4.5.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:jsx-slack_project:jsx-slack:*:*:*:*:*: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
1.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0138 is in the 50th 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: jsx-slackFixed in: 4.5.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-55xv-f85c-248qlow

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in jsx-slack

Dec 17, 2021

References

github.com / yhatt/jsx-slack/commit/36e4a10405e4c7745333e245fcc5029c02c7065d
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / yhatt/jsx-slack/security/advisories/GHSA-55xv-f85c-248q
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory