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Security checkFebruary 01, 2023

Improper Input Validation in is-email

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Description

is-email helps validate an email address. A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the Segment is-email package before 1.0.1 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to provide crafted input to the isEmail(input) function may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Recommendation

Update the is-email package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 1.0.1
  • Patched version(s): 1.0.1

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