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CVE-2021-23353: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-03-09 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

This affects the package jspdf before 2.3.1. ReDoS is possible via the addImage function.

Affected products

• parallax jsPDF: before 2.3.1 — fixed in 2.3.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: parallax jsPDF 2.3.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF/commit/d8bb3b39efcd129994f7a3b01b632164144ec43e
• https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF/pull/3091
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARS-1083289
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1083287
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBMRRIO-1083288
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1083286
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-JSPDF-1073626
• https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF/commit/d8bb3b39efcd129994f7a3b01b632164144ec43e
• https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF/pull/3091
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARS-1083289
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1083287
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBMRRIO-1083288

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