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Security checkSeptember 08, 2023

Regular Expression Denial of Service in postcss

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Description

The package postcss versions before 7.0.36 or between 8.0.0 and 8.2.13 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via getAnnotationURL() and loadAnnotation() in lib/previous-map.js. The vulnerable regexes are caused mainly by the sub-pattern

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): **< 7.0.36 >= 8.0.0, < 8.2.13**
  • Patched version(s): **7.0.36 8.2.13**

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