High

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Prism

  • Disclosed: 28.06.2021
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Some languages before 1.24.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

Impact

When Prism is used to highlight untrusted (user-given) text, an attacker can craft a string that will take a very very long time to highlight. Do not use the following languages to highlight untrusted text.

  • ASCIIDoc
  • ERB

Other languages are not affected and can be used to highlight untrusted text.

Patches

This problem has been fixed in Prism v1.24.

References

  • PrismJS/prism#2774
  • PrismJS/prism#2688

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package prismjs < 1.24.0 1.24.0

References

CVSS score 7.4/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Platform
npm
Package
prismjs
Disclosed
28.06.2021
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-gj77-59wh-66hg - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: prismjs

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
6
First → latest
08.2020 03.2025
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 4
  • Medium 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2020: 1
  2. 2021: 3
  3. 2022: 1
  4. 2023: 0
  5. 2024: 0
  6. 2025: 1
  7. 2026: 0
  1. Medium · 4.9 CVE-2024-53382 < 1.30.0 1.30.0
  2. High · 7.5 CVE-2022-23647 >= 1.14.0, < 1.27.0 1.27.0
  3. Medium · 6.5 CVE-2021-3801 < 1.25.0 1.25.0
  4. Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Prism this entry
    High · 7.4 CVE-2021-32723 < 1.24.0 1.24.0
  5. High CVE-2021-23341 < 1.23.0 1.23.0
  6. High · 7.1 CVE-2020-15138 >= 1.1.0, < 1.21.0 1.21.0

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