GHSA-pvrw-g6fx-mcx2HighCVSS 7.5

is_js vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service

Published
July 6, 2023
Last Modified
July 6, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

is.js is a general-purpose check library. Versions 0.9.0 and prior contain one or more regular expressions that are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). is.js uses a regex copy-pasted from a gist to validate URLs. Trying to validate a malicious string can cause the regex to loop "forever." This vulnerability was found using a CodeQL query which identifies inefficient regular expressions. is.js has no patch for this issue.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/is_js:<= 0.9.0

🔗 References (4)