cookiejar Regular Expression Denial of Service via Cookie.parse function

Description

Versions of the package cookiejar before 2.1.4 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the Cookie.parse function and other aspects of the API, which use an insecure regular expression for parsing cookie values.

Recommendation

Update the cookiejar package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.1.4
• Patched version(s): 2.1.4

References

• GHSA-h452-7996-h45h
• security.snyk.io
• lists.debian.org
• CVE-2022-25901
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• steal vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service via source and sourceWithComments - CVE-2022-37262
• Regular expression denial of service in devcert - CVE-2022-1929

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Tags:

npm

cookiejar