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n/a cross-spawn — Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReD…
AV AC AT PR UI VC VI VA CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
N L N N N N N H 7.7 .0087 55.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
cross-spawn unspecified —
org.webjars.npm:cross-spawn unspecified —
TIMELINE
Dec 22 Reserved by snyk
Nov 8 Published (CNA: snyk)
Jul 28 RESCORED — CVE-2024-21538 (cross-spawn). CVSS 8.7 → 7.7 (NVD).
Description
Versions of the package cross-spawn before 6.0.6, from 7.0.0 and before 7.0.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to improper input sanitization. An attacker can increase the CPU usage and crash the program by crafting a very large and well crafted string.
Lifecycle
Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
| Date | Event | Detail |
|---|
| December 22, 2023 | Reserved | Reserved by snyk |
| November 8, 2024 | Published | Published (CNA: snyk) |
| July 28, 2026 | RESCORED | RESCORED — CVE-2024-21538 (cross-spawn). CVSS 8.7 → 7.7 (NVD). |
Affected
Affected products and packages — 2 rows
| Vendor | Product / Package | Ecosystem | Version introduced | Fixed |
|---|
| n/a | cross-spawn | — | — | — |
| n/a | org.webjars.npm:cross-spawn | — | — | — |
About this page
This is a reference page, not a dated page of record. It assembles the complete lifecycle of CVE-2024-21538 from the CVE Program record, NVD enrichment, the CISA KEV catalog, EPSS, and OSV advisories. The box score's numbers (CVSS, EPSS, KEV status) are current as of Wednesday, August 19, 2026 UTC and are re-derived as the archive grows; only dated daily editions are immutable pages of record. The authoritative source for this identifier is cve.org.