Description
When using Babel to compile regular expression named capturing groups, Babel will generate a polyfill for the .replace method that has quadratic complexity on some specific replacement pattern strings (i.e. the second argument passed to .replace).
Recommendation
Update the @babel/runtime-corejs3 package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:
Affected version(s): **>= 8.0.0-alpha.0, < 8.0.0-alpha.16 < 7.26.10** Patched version(s): **8.0.0-alpha.17 7.26.10**
References
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