CVE-2021-43306

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.015 · 74 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.52% (74th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

9 products

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Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the jquery-validation npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the url2 method

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

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · reefs@jfrog.comexploitability 2.2 · impact 3.6

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-1333USprimaryCWE-1333US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

HCL BigFix PM <84all versionscert_bundDE
HCL BigFix Query <4.7.0all versionscert_bundDE
HCL BigFix Server Automationall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:hcltech:bigfix:server_automation
HCL BigFix WebUIall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:hcltech:bigfix:webui
HCL BigFix≤ PM <84cert_bundDE
HCL BigFix≤ Query <4.7.0cert_bundDE
jquery-validation jquery-validationunspecified → 1.19.4enisa_euvdEU
jqueryvalidation jquery validation< 1.19.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:jqueryvalidation:jquery_validation:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm jquery-validation< 1.19.4osvUSpkg:npm/jquery-validation

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1590HCL BigFix: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2024-07-10csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in HCL BigFix ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen, ertrauliche Informationen preiszugeben, Daten zu manipulieren und Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen.
GHSA-j9m2-h2pv-wvphRegular expression denial of service in jquery-validation2022-06-03ghsa · osvUS
An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the jquery-validation npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the url2 method

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2022-06-02modified 2026-06-17

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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