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Security checkFebruary 01, 2023

Regular Expression Denial of Service in trim

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Description

All versions of package trim lower than 0.0.3 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via trim().

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): < 0.0.3
  • Patched version(s): 0.0.3

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