jquery-validation Regular Expression Denial of Service due to arbitrary input to url2 method

Description

Summary

Incomplete fix of CVE-2021-43306: An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the jquery-validation npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the url2 method.

Recommendation

Update the jquery-validation package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.19.5
• Patched version(s): 1.19.5

References

• GHSA-ffmh-x56j-9rc3
• CVE-2022-31147
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial of Service in jquery-validation - CVE-2021-21252
• Regular expression denial of service in jquery-validation (GHSA-j9m2-h2pv-wvph) - CVE-2021-43306
• steal vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service via input variable - CVE-2022-37260
• steal vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service via source and sourceWithComments - CVE-2022-37262

Tags:

npm

jquery-validation