Asymmetric denial of service In slug
Description
Regular Expression Denial of Service in slug
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.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Component | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
 npm | 0.9.2 |
Aliases
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References
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