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Security checkJanuary 27, 2023

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

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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

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