Regular expression denial of service in url-regex

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

References

• GHSA-v4rh-8p82-6h5w
• snyk.io
• CVE-2020-7661
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• glob-parent vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in enclosure regex - CVE-2020-28469
• angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the <input type="url"> element - CVE-2023-26118
• useragent Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26311
• is_js vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service - CVE-2020-26302

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Tags:

npm

url-regex