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CVE-2018-20801

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-03-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-185

Description

In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.

Affected products

• highcharts: before 6.1.0 — fixed in 6.1.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: highcharts 6.1.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/
• https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225
• https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/
• https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225

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