Regular Expression Denial of Service (GHSA-qx4v-6gc5-f2vv)

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in esm before 3.1.0. The issue is that esm’s find-indexes is using the unescaped identifiers in a regex, which, in this case, causes an infinite loop.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 3.1.0
• Patched version(s): 3.1.0

References

• GHSA-qx4v-6gc5-f2vv
• CWE-400

Related Issues

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• Regular Expression Denial of Service in highcharts (GHSA-xmc8-cjfr-phx3) - CVE-2018-20801
• html-parse-stringify and html-parse-stringify2 vulnerable to Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) (GHSA-545q-3fg6-48m7) - CVE-2021-23346

Tags:

npm

esm