HighGHSA-f5w6-r7rg-mcgqCVE-2014-8882

Regular Expression Denial of Service in validator

Published 31 Aug 2020 · Updated 8 Nov 2023

Affected package

Affected: <3.22.1
Fixed in: 3.22.1

Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install validator@3.22.1

Details

Versions of validator prior to 3.22.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the isURL method.

Recommendation

Update to version 3.22.1 or later.

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References

Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8882
Linkgithub.com/chriso/validator.js/issues/152#issuecomment-48107184
Packagegithub.com/chriso/validator.js
Linksnyk.io/vuln/npm:validator:20130705
Linkwww.npmjs.com/advisories/42

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