{"id":"CVE-2021-39157","aliases":["GHSA-jqfh-8hw5-fqjr"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39157","summary":"Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions in detect-character-encoding","details":"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.","published":"2021-08-24T19:15:32.127Z","modified":"2026-07-09T10:52:04.669097Z","cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"epss":{"score":0.02068,"percentile":0.79687,"asOf":"2026-08-23"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":2,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","name":"detect-character-encoding","fixedVersion":"0.7.0"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/992a11007fff6cfd40b952150ab8d30410c4a20a","label":"sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding@992a110"},"references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/992a11007fff6cfd40b952150ab8d30410c4a20a"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/issues/15"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/security/advisories/GHSA-jqfh-8hw5-fqjr"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-07-09T10:52:04.669097Z"}}