useragent Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Description

Useragent is a user agent parser for Node.js. All versions as of time of publication contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

• <= 2.3.0

References

• GHSA-mgfv-m47x-4wqp
• CVE-2020-26311
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Foundation Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26304
• Knwl.js Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26306
• CommonRegexJS Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-26305
• ua-parser-js Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability - CVE-2020-7793

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Tags:

npm

useragent