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Security checkSeptember 08, 2023

Regular Expression Denial of Service in content

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Description

Affected versions of content are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing malicious Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers.

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): < 3.0.7
  • Patched version(s): 3.0.7

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