Vulnerability in mwilliamson mammoth.js

[ Description ]Official description

Mammoth.js 1.3.0 before 1.12.3 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the style map tokeniser in lib/styles/parser/tokeniser.js due to overlapping regex alternatives. Attackers can supply a crafted .docx with an unterminated quoted string of repeated backslash escapes in mammoth/style-map to block the Node.js event loop.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ References ]References

• github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js
• github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/blob/1.12.2/lib/styles/parser/tokeniser.js
• github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/commit/dc49225425c2c07de0a6dc3529f2386c82a032b4
• github.com/mwilliamson/mammoth.js/issues/487
• www.vulncheck.com/advisories/mammoth-js-1.3.0-before-1.12.3-redos-via-style-map-tokeniser