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Security checkSeptember 29, 2025

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lodash

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Description

All versions of package lodash prior to 4.17.21 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the toNumber, trim and trimEnd functions.

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): >= 4.0.0, < 4.17.21
  • Patched version(s): 4.17.21

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