Regular Expression Denial of Service in validator

published 2020-08-31 6y ago modified 2023-11-08 3y ago also GHSA-f5w6-r7rg-mcgq

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, GitHub
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: —; no EPSS score yet
public exploits: 0; none known

Versions of `validator` prior to 3.22.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the `isURL` method.

## Recommendation

Update to version 3.22.1 or later.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

npm validator 3.22.1

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CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
GitHub	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
npm	validator	<3.22.1	3.22.1

Classification

Weakness

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8882
advisory
github.com /chriso/validator.js/issues/152#issuecomment-48107184
web
github.com /chriso/validator.js
package
snyk.io /vuln/npm:validator:20130705
web
npmjs.com /advisories/42
web

Sources

GitHub Advisory GHSA-f5w6-r7rg-mcgq

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