Vulnerability CVE-2021-39176
Published: 2021-08-31

Description:
detect-character-encoding is a package for detecting character encoding using ICU. In detect-character-encoding v0.3.0 and earlier, allocated memory is not released. The problem has been patched in detect-character-encoding v0.3.1.

Type:

CWE-401

 (Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference ('Memory Leak'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Detect-character-encoding project -> Detect-character-encoding 

 References:
https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/security/advisories/GHSA-5rwj-j5m3-3chj
https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/pull/6
https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.3.1
https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/d44356927b92e3b13e178071bf6d7c671766f588
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