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CVE-2021-39157
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-08-24T19:15:32.127 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:03:12.860

Summary

detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.

Affected products

detect-character-encoding_project — detect-character-encoding

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References

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