Description
Affected versions of slug are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing untrusted user input.
The issue is low severity, as it takes 50,000 characters to cause the event loop to block for 2 seconds,
About 50k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds.
Recommendation
Update the slug package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:
- Affected version(s): <= 0.9.1
- Patched version(s): 0.9.2
References
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See something that needs correcting? Let us knowUpdated January 12, 2023