CVE-2021-33502

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.017 · 77 %ileDEEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.70% (77th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

30 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The normalize-url package before 4.5.1, 5.x before 5.3.1, and 6.x before 6.0.1 for Node.js has a ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) issue because it has exponential performance for data: URLs.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.17.5highAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-1333USprimaryCWE-400USCWE-400US

affected products (30)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Atlassian Confluence <10.0.2all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence <10.1.1all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence <8.5.25all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence <9.2.7all versionscert_bundDE
Dell Data Protection Advisor <19.12all versionscert_bundDE
IBM DB2all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:db2:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <8.1.14all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <8.2.11all versionscert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise <9.0.5all versionscert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 10.0.2cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 10.1.1cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 8.5.25cert_bundDE
Atlassian Confluence< 9.2.7cert_bundDE
Dell Data Protection Advisor< 19.12cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 8.1.14cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 8.2.11cert_bundDE
Splunk Splunk Enterprise< 9.0.5cert_bundDE
n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU

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advisories (4)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2023-0856IBM QRadar SIEM: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-05-31csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM QRadar SIEM ausnutzen, um die Vertraulichkeit, Integrität und Verfügbarkeit zu gefährden.
WID-SEC-W-2023-0857IBM QRadar SIEM: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2022-05-24csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in IBM QRadar SIEM ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herbeizuführen, Dateien manipulieren oder Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
WID-SEC-W-2023-1350Splunk Splunk Enterprise: Mehrere Schwachstellen in Komponenten von DrittanbieternDeutsch2023-06-01csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Splunk Splunk Enterprise in diversen Komponenten von Drittanbietern ausnutzen, um einen nicht näher spezifizierten Angriff durchzuführen.
GHSA-px4h-xg32-q955ReDoS in normalize-url2021-06-08ghsa · osvUS
The normalize-url package before 4.5.1, 5.x before 5.3.1, and 6.x before 6.0.1 for Node.js has a ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) issue because it has exponential performance for data: URLs.

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Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu cert_bund osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-05-24modified 2026-06-17

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references (27)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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