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Security checkNovember 29, 2023

Regular expression denial of service in devcert

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High severitynpmdevcert

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Description

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the devcert npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the certificateFor method

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): < 1.2.1
  • Patched version(s): 1.2.1

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