Zod denial of service vulnerability during email validation

Description

API servers running express-zod-api having:

• version of express-zod-api below 10.0.0-beta1,
• and using the following (or similar) validation schema in its implementation: z.string().email(),

are vulnerable to a DoS attack due to:

• Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in zod versions up to 3.22.2,
• depending on zod.

Recommendation

Update the express-zod-api package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 10.0.0-beta1
• Patched version(s): 10.0.0-beta1

References

• GHSA-mvrp-3cvx-c325
• CWE-1333

Related Issues

• Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) - Vulnerability
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in markdown - Vulnerability
• Denial of Service in apostrophe - Vulnerability
• Regular Expression Denial of Service in millisecond - Vulnerability

Tags:

npm

express-zod-api