What is CVE-2021-40660?

CVE-2021-40660 is a high-severity vulnerability in Javadelight Nashorn Sandbox, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-06-14.

How severe is CVE-2021-40660?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Javadelight Nashorn Sandbox

CVE-2021-40660

An issue was discovered in Delight Nashorn Sandbox 0.2.0. There is an ReDoS vulnerability that can be exploited to launching a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.010 (58.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Javadelight Nashorn_sandbox — versions 0.2.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-40660?: CVE-2021-40660 is a high-severity vulnerability in Javadelight Nashorn Sandbox, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-06-14.
How severe is CVE-2021-40660?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.