CVE-2020-28500

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

MEDIUM

5.3

CVSS Score

Published: February 15, 2021 at 11:10 AM UTC

Updated: October 8, 2026 at 10:16 PM UTC

19 products affected across 3 vendorsPeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleToolsJD Edwards EnterpriseOne ToolsCommunications Cloud Native Core Policy

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Severity

MEDIUM5.3

Exploit prediction

EPSS 7%

SSVC

No known exploit

Description

Lodash versions prior to 4.17.21 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the toNumber, trim and trimEnd functions.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Lodash · Lodashnpm

95%

v < 4.17.21*versions prior to 4.17.21

Affected range stops below 4.17.21, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Banking Corporate Lending Process Management · Oracle

95%

14.2.0 14.3.0 14.5.0

Banking Credit Facilities Process Management · Oracle

95%

14.2.0 14.3.0 14.5.0

Banking Extensibility Workbench · Oracle

95%

14.2.0 14.3.0 14.5.0

Banking Supply Chain Finance · Oracle

95%

14.2.0 14.3.0 14.5.0

Banking Trade Finance Process Management · Oracle

95%

14.2.0 14.3.0 14.5.0

Communications Cloud Native Core Policy · Oracle

95%

1.11.0

Communications Design Studio · Oracle

95%

7.4.2

Communications Services Gatekeeper · Oracledrupal

95%

7.0

Communications Session Border Controller · Oracle

95%

8.4 9.0

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (14)

x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-637483.pdf

x_refsource_MISCBroken Link

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/blob/npm/trimEnd.js%23L8

x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://github.com/lodash/lodash/pull/5065

x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210312-0006/

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGFUJIONWEBJARS-1074896

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARS-1074894

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWER-1074892

x_refsource_MISCExploitThird Party Advisory

Source: [email protected]

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSBOWERGITHUBLODASH-1074895

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitAutomatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5.3MEDIUMsnyk

Attack Vector: NETWORK
Complexity: LOW
Privileges: NONE
User Interaction: NONE
Scope: UNCHANGED
Confidentiality: NONE
Integrity: NONE
Availability: LOW

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

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