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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-41818 json

ReDOS at currency parsing fast-xml-parser

published 2024-07-29 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also EUVD-2024-2385 , GHSA-mpg4-rc92-vx8v

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

fast-xml-parser is an open source, pure javascript xml parser. a ReDOS exists on currency.js. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.4.1.

Patch / fix

  • npm fast-xml-parser 4.4.1
  • naturalintelligence fast_xml_parser 4.4.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-41818 updated cvss 7.5

fast-xml-parser: ReDOS at currency parsing in currency.js

  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 mta/mta-ui-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Serverless fast-xml-parser
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat CNV 4.16 for RHEL 9 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin-rhel9 v4.16.1-107
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:5054
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2 for RHEL 9 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1.2-136
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2024:5958
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 8 rhoai/odh-rhel8-operator v2.13.1-2, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel8 v2.13.1-1, rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel8 v2.13.1-1, rhoai/odh-operator-bundle v2.13.1-2, rhoai/odh-mm-rest-proxy-rhel8 v2.13.1-1, rhoai/odh-kueue-controller-rhel8 v2.13.1-1, +24 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2024:8413
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.14 for RHEL 9 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9 v4.14.11-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:7624
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.16 for RHEL 9 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9 v4.16.2-2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:6755
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.17 for RHEL 9 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9 v4.17.0-69
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:8676
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  • Red Hat CNV 4.16 for RHEL 9 container-native-virtualization/virt-api-rhel9 v4.16.1-6, container-native-virtualization/pr-helper-rhel9 v4.16.1-6, container-native-virtualization/aaq-server-rhel9 v4.16.1-1, container-native-virtualization/virtio-win-rhel9 v4.16.1-1, container-native-virtualization/wasp-agent-rhel9 v4.16.1-1, container-native-virtualization/kubemacpool-rhel9 v4.16.1-1, +47 more Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 7 mta/mta-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh-operator-container Red Hat Developer Hub 1.2 for RHEL 9 rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator 1.2-131, rhdh/rhdh-operator-bundle 1.2-125 Red Hat RHODF 4.14 for RHEL 9 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9 v4.14.11-2, odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9 v4.14.11-1, odf4/odf-console-rhel9 v4.14.11-1, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator v4.14.11-1, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator v4.14.11-1, odf4/odf-rhel9-operator v4.14.11-1, +19 more Red Hat RHODF 4.16 for RHEL 9 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9 v4.16.2-2, odf4/odf-cli-rhel9 v4.16.2-2, odf4/odf-console-rhel9 v4.16.2-2, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator v4.16.2-2, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator v4.16.2-2, odf4/odf-rhel9-operator v4.16.2-2, +22 more
    +1 more products
    Red Hat RHODF 4.17 for RHEL 9 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9 v4.17.0-46, odf4/odf-cli-rhel9 v4.17.0-29, odf4/odf-console-rhel9 v4.17.0-53, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator v4.17.0-23, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator v4.17.0-60, odf4/odf-rhel9-operator v4.17.0-20, +24 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/security/advisories/GHSA-mpg4-rc92-vx8v referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm fast-xml-parser
>=4.3.5, <4.4.1
4.4.1

Affected products

  • NaturalIntelligence fast-xml-parser
  • naturalintelligence fast_xml_parser

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.