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Security checkNovember 13, 2024

insane vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service

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Medium severitynpminsane

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Description

insane is a whitelist-oriented HTML sanitizer. Versions 2.6.2 and prior contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). As of time of publication, no known patches are available.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 2.6.2

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