url-parse Incorrectly parses URLs that include an '@

Description

A specially crafted URL with an ‘@’ sign but empty user info and no hostname, when parsed with url-parse, url-parse will return the incorrect href.

Recommendation

Update the url-parse package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.5.7
• Patched version(s): 1.5.7

References

• GHSA-8v38-pw62-9cw2
• huntr.dev
• lists.debian.org
• CVE-2022-0639
• CWE-639
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

url-parse