Regular Expression Denial of Service in browserslist

Description

The package browserslist from 4.0.0 and before 4.16.5 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) during parsing of queries.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): >= 4.0.0, < 4.16.5
• Patched version(s): 4.16.5

References

• GHSA-w8qv-6jwh-64r5
• snyk.io
• CVE-2021-23364
• CWE-1333
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular expression denial of service in jquery-validation - jquery-validation - CVE-2021-43306
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - ssri - CVE-2021-27290
• Regular Expression Denial-of-Service in npm schema-inspector - CVE-2021-21267
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in ua-parser-js - CVE-2021-27292

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Tags:

npm

browserslist