Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Affecting validator package, versions [,3.22.1)

Snyk CVSS

Attack Complexity Low

Availability High

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Snyk ID SNYK-DOTNET-VALIDATOR-60217
published 6 Nov 2015
disclosed 6 Nov 2015
credit Karl Düüna

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Introduced: 6 Nov 2015

CVE-2014-8882 Open this link in a new tab CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Update to version 3.22.1 or greater.

Overview

The validator module, versions < 3.22.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

Source: Node Security Project

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