CVE-2021-27515

Publication date 22 February 2021

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

url-parse before 1.5.0 mishandles certain uses of backslash such as http:\/ and interprets the URI as a relative path.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
node-url-parse	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not affected
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Not affected
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Ignored end of life
	21.04 hirsute	Ignored end of life
	20.10 groovy	Ignored end of life
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.4.7-3ubuntu0.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.2.0-1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1.0.5-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-5973-1
url-parse vulnerabilities
27 March 2023