ejs vulnerable to DoS due to weak input validation

Description

nodejs ejs version older than 2.5.5 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service due to weak input validation in ejs.renderFile()

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 2.5.5
• Patched version(s): 2.5.5

References

• GHSA-6x77-rpqf-j6mw
• web.archive.org
• CVE-2017-1000189
• CWE-20
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A3
• OWASP 2021-A6

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npm

ejs