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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWczNmgtNnI0Zi0zbXFw
Regular Expression Denial of Service in string package
Affected versions of string are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.
Recommendation
There is currently no direct patch for this vulnerability.
Currently, the best solution is to avoid passing user input to the underscore and unescapeHTML methods.
Alternatively, a user provided patch is available in Pull Request #217, however this patch has not been tested, nor has it been merged by the package author.
Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqpJSON: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories/MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWczNmgtNnI0Zi0zbXFw
Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: almost 6 years ago
Updated: 8 months ago
CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Identifiers: GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp, CVE-2017-16116
References:
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16116
- https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/536
Blast Radius: 31.5
Affected Packages
npm:string
Dependent packages: 1,160Dependent repositories: 15,835
Downloads: 320,096 last month
Affected Version Ranges: <= 3.3.3
No known fixed version
All affected versions: 0.0.1, 0.0.2, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.1.1, 0.1.2, 0.2.0, 0.2.1, 0.2.2, 1.0.0, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.2.1, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.7.0, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.9.0, 1.9.1, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.1.0, 2.2.0, 3.0.0, 3.0.1, 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2, 3.1.3, 3.2.0, 3.2.1, 3.3.0, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.3.3