CVE-2020-36649mholt PapaParse papaparse.js redos
- 3.5LowCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 26% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability was found in mholt PapaParse up to 5.1.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the file papaparse.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Upgrading to version 5.2.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 235a12758cd77266d2e98fd715f53536b34ad621. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-218004.
Timeline
ID reserved
By VulDB
Published
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Low3.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 2.0 | Low2.3 | AV:A/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.5.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmpapaparseGHSA-qvjc-g5vr-mfgr (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://vuldb.com/?id.218004 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrytechnical-descriptionx_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.218004 (opens in a new tab)signaturepermissions-requiredx_transferred
- https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/issues/777 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
- https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/pull/779 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_transferred
- https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/commit/235a12758cd77266d2e98fd715f53536b34ad621 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
- https://github.com/mholt/PapaParse/releases/tag/5.2.0 (opens in a new tab)patchx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-0378 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qvjc-g5vr-mfgr (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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