ReDOS vulnerabities: multiple grammars (GHSA-7wwv-vh3v-89cq)

Description

oswasp:

The Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) is a Denial of Service attack, that exploits the fact that most Regular Expression implementations may reach extreme situations that cause them to work very slowly (exponentially related to input size).

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): >= 9.0.0, < 10.4.1
• Patched version(s): 10.4.1

References

• GHSA-7wwv-vh3v-89cq
• www.npmjs.com
• CWE-20
• CWE-400
• OWASP 2021-A3

Related Issues

• ReDOS vulnerabities: multiple grammars - Vulnerability
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• Server side request forgery in SwaggerUI (GHSA-qrmm-w75w-3wpx) - Vulnerability
• Server side request forgery in SwaggerUI (GHSA-qrmm-w75w-3wpx) 2 - Vulnerability

Tags:

npm

highlight.js