Denial of Service in rgb2hex

Description

All versions of rgb2hex are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when an attacker can pass in a specially crafted invalid color value.

Recommendation

Update the rgb2hex package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.1.6
• Patched version(s): 0.1.6

References

• GHSA-65p8-3hm4-h9h8
• hackerone.com
• www.npmjs.com
• snyk.io
• CWE-400

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Tags:

npm

rgb2hex