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Security checkFebruary 13, 2025

cookiejar Regular Expression Denial of Service via Cookie.parse function

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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

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