html-parse-stringify and html-parse-stringify2 vulnerable to Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)

Description

This affects the package html-parse-stringify before 2.0.1; all versions of package html-parse-stringify2. Sending certain input could cause one of the regular expressions that is used for parsing to backtrack, freezing the process.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

<= 2.0.1

References

GHSA-545q-3fg6-48m7
snyk.io
CVE-2021-23346
CWE-400
CAPEC-310
OWASP 2021-A6

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