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Asymmetric denial of service - ReDoS In prototypejs

Description

An issue was discovered in the stripTags and unescapeHTML components in Prototype 1.7.3 where an attacker can cause a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) through stripping crafted HTML tags.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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