Description
The package sanitize-html before 2.7.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure global regular expression replacement logic of HTML comment removal.
Recommendation
Update the sanitize-html package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:
- Affected version(s): < 2.7.1
- Patched version(s): 2.7.1
References
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