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CVE-2020-26256

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.7 EPSS 1.52% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2020-12-08 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 5.7. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.

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A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2020-26256
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.7
EPSS
1.52%

Original NVD Description

Fast-csv is an npm package for parsing and formatting CSVs or any other delimited value file in node. In fast-cvs before version 4.3.6 there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability (Regular Expression Denial of Service) when using ignoreEmpty option when parsing. This has been patched in `v4.3.6` You will only be affected by this if you use the `ignoreEmpty` parsing option. If you do use this option it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest version `v4.3.6` This vulnerability was found using a CodeQL query which identified `EMPTY_ROW_REGEXP` regular expression as vulnerable.

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