CVE-2021-39157: Detect-Character-Encoding Project Detect-Character-Encoding

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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: before 0.7.0 (fixed in 0.7.0)

Published 2021-08-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.