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Security checkFebruary 01, 2023

regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) - date-and-time

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High severitynpmdate-and-time

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Description

date-and-time is an npm package for manipulating date and time. In date-and-time before version 0.14.2, there a regular expression involved in parsing which can be exploited to to cause a denial of service. This is fixed in version 0.14.2.

Recommendation

Update the date-and-time package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

  • Affected version(s): < 0.14.2
  • Patched version(s): 0.14.2

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