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

• Auth0 NextJS SDK v4 Missing Session Invalidation - CVE-2025-46344
• Potential DoS when using ContextLines integration - Vulnerability
• sanitize-html Information Exposure vulnerability - CVE-2024-21501
• json-schema-ref-parser Prototype Pollution issue - CVE-2024-29651

Tags:

npm

validator