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

• Regular Expression Denial of Service in slug - CVE-2017-16117
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in marked - marked - CVE-2017-16114
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in timespan - CVE-2017-16115
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in tough-cookie - CVE-2017-15010

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Tags:

npm

string