word-wrap vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service

Description

All versions of the package word-wrap are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to the usage of an insecure regular expression within the result variable.

Recommendation

Update the word-wrap package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.2.4
• Patched version(s): 1.2.4

References

• GHSA-j8xg-fqg3-53r7
• security.snyk.io
• security.netapp.com
• CVE-2023-26115
• CWE-1333
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

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• angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the $resource service - CVE-2023-26117
• angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the angular.copy() utility - CVE-2023-26116
• angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) - CVE-2022-25844

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Tags:

npm

word-wrap