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Security checkAugust 01, 2024

Regular Expression Denial of Service in ms

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Description

Versions of ms prior to 0.7.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed.

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): < 0.7.1
  • Patched version(s): 0.7.1

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