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Parse the value of the Content-Type header

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Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

content-type-parser is a Parse the value of the Content-Type header. content-type-parser package has been replaced by whatwg-mimetype.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). It used a regular expression (/^(.*?)\/(.*?)([\t ]*;.*)?$/) in order to parse user agents. This can cause a very moderate impact of about 4 seconds matching time for data 30k characters long.

Note: content-type-parser has been replaced by the whatwg-mimetype package and the fix for this vulnerability can be found within whatwg-mimetype.

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