Regular Expression Denial of Service in string package

Description

Affected versions of string are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 3.3.3

References

• GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2017-16116
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Elliptic's verify function omits uniqueness validation - CVE-2024-48949
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• Strapi is vulnerable to Insufficient Session Expiration - CVE-2025-3930
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash - CVE-2020-28500

Tags:

npm

string