Regular Expression Denial of Service in validator

Description

Versions of validator prior to 3.22.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the isURL method.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 3.22.1
• Patched version(s): 3.22.1

References

• GHSA-f5w6-r7rg-mcgq
• www.npmjs.com
• snyk.io
• CVE-2014-8882
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial Of Service in uri-js - CVE-2017-16021
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in slug - CVE-2017-16117
• uap-core Regular Expression Denial of Service issue - CVE-2018-20164
• Regular Expression Denial-of-Service in npm schema-inspector - CVE-2021-21267

Tags:

npm

validator