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

• parse-uri Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - CVE-2024-36751
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in ms - CVE-2015-8315
• useragent Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26311
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - ssri - CVE-2021-27290

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