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Security checkAugust 31, 2023

Regular Expression Denial of Service in jquery-validation

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Description

The GitHub Security Lab team has identified potential security vulnerabilities in jquery.validation.

The project contains one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

This issue was discovered and reported by GitHub team member @erik-krogh (Erik Krogh Kristensen).

Recommendation

Update the jquery-validation package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 1.19.3
  • Patched version(s): 1.19.3

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