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

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

References

• GHSA-r92x-f52r-x54g
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2020-26289
• CWE-400
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

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• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash - lodash.trim - CVE-2020-28500
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash - CVE-2020-28500
• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash - lodash-es - CVE-2020-28500

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date-and-time