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Security checkSeptember 06, 2023

ReDoS via long UserAgent header in useragent

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High severitynpmuseragent

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Description

Affected versions of useragent are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when an arbitrarily long User-Agent header is parsed.

Recommendation

Update the useragent package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): <= 2.1.12
  • Patched version(s): 2.1.13

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