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

• Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked (GHSA-ch52-vgq2-943f) - Vulnerability
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (GHSA-6394-6h9h-cfjg) - Vulnerability
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - Vulnerability
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked (GHSA-x5pg-88wf-qq4p) - CVE-2017-16114

Tags:

npm

esm