Medium

Denial of Service in rgb2hex

  • Disclosed: 23.08.2019
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

All versions of rgb2hex are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when an attacker can pass in a specially crafted invalid color value.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.1.6 or later.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package rgb2hex < 0.1.6 0.1.6

References

CVSS score 6.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Platform
npm
Package
rgb2hex
Disclosed
23.08.2019
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-65p8-3hm4-h9h8 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: rgb2hex

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
2
First → latest
08.2019 12.2022
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 1
  • Medium 1

Disclosures per year

  1. 2019: 1
  2. 2020: 0
  3. 2021: 0
  4. 2022: 1
  5. 2023: 0
  6. 2024: 0
  7. 2025: 0
  8. 2026: 0
  1. High · 7.5 CVE-2018-25061 < 0.1.6 0.1.6
  2. Denial of Service in rgb2hex this entry
    Medium · 6.5 ghsa-65p8-3hm4-h9h8 < 0.1.6 0.1.6

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