Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-39176 - Memory Leak vulnerability in Detect-Character-Encoding Project Detect-Character-Encoding
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
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