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Regular Expression Denial of Service in slug
CVE-2017-16117 · GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9
- Affected
- npm slug <= 0.9.1
- Fixed in
- 0.9.2· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- Affected versions of slug are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing untrusted user input. The issue is low severity, as it takes 50,000 characters to cause the event loop to block for 2 seconds, About 50k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds. Recommendation Update to version 0.9.2 or later.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.9.2 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.