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Security checkSeptember 13, 2023

Regular Expression Denial of Service in timespan

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Description

Affected versions of timespan are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing dates.

The amplification for this vulnerability is significant, with 50,000 characters resulting in the event loop being blocked for around 10 seconds.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 2.3.0

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