html-parse-stringify and html-parse-stringify2 vulnerable to Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) (GHSA-545q-3fg6-48m7)

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

Update the html-parse-stringify package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.0.1
• Patched version(s): 2.0.1

References

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

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Tags:

npm

html-parse-stringify