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CVE-2020-28469 — Vulnerability in glob-parent — CVE Details

HIGH

glob-parent vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in enclosure regex

Published June 7, 2021Updated January 14, 2025Source: osv

What Should I Do?

Address in Next Maintenance Window

Low exploitation probability (0.33%). Schedule for your next planned update.

Summary

This affects the package glob-parent before 5.1.2. The enclosure regex used to check for strings ending in enclosure containing path separator.

Advisory Timeline

  • First published June 7, 2021 (1953 days ago).
  • Last revised January 14, 2025 — 1316 days after initial publication.

Remediation

Upgrade to the fixed version using your package manager.

npm
Update glob-parent to 5.1.2 or later
npm install glob-parent@5.1.2

After upgrading, run your dependency scanner again to confirm the vulnerability is resolved.

Affected Packages (1)

Affects 1 ecosystem: npm (1).

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed In
glob-parent
npm
All versions5.1.2

Vulnerability Classification

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) identifiers for this vulnerability type.

  • CWE-400
    Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionMITRE

CVSS Score Breakdown

What the CVSS (Common Vulnerability Scoring System) 7.5 score means for each attack dimension.

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
None
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Frequently Asked Questions

What is CVE-2020-28469?
glob-parent vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in enclosure regex This vulnerability has been assigned a severity rating of HIGH (CVSS score: 7.5/10).
How do I check if my project is affected by CVE-2020-28469?
CVE-2020-28469 affects glob-parent. It has a 0.3% probability of exploitation within 30 days (EPSS score). Use GeekWala's free vulnerability scanner to check your dependencies against CVE-2020-28469 and 200,000+ other known vulnerabilities.

Severity & Exploitability

CVSS Score
7.5

High exploitability or significant impact. Prioritize remediation within days.

EPSS Score (30-day exploit probability)
0.33%
Higher than 56% of vulnerabilities

This is an above-median EPSS score — 55.8% of tracked vulnerabilities score at or below it, putting its exploitation likelihood in the upper half of the tracked corpus.

Also Known As

GHSA-ww39-953v-wcq6
BIT-gulp-2020-28469

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