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Security checkFebruary 12, 2025

Regular Expression Denial of Service in jsoneditor

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Medium severitynpmjsoneditor

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Description

JSON Editor is a web-based tool to view, edit, format, and validate JSON. It has various modes such as a tree editor, a code editor, and a plain text editor. The jsoneditor package is vulnerable to ReDoS (regular expression denial of service).

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): < 9.5.6
  • Patched version(s): 9.5.6

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