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Security checkJanuary 09, 2023

Regular expression denial of service in url-regex

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High severitynpmurl-regex

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Description

all versions of url-regex are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service. An attacker providing a very long string in String.test can cause a Denial of Service.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 5.0.0

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