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

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• Prebid-universal-creative latest on npm briefly compromised - CVE-2025-59039
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• Joplin Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability via NOSCRIPT tags - CVE-2021-33295
• Joplin Vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting in Note Content - CVE-2018-1000534

Tags:

npm

highlight.js