Asymmetric denial of service - ReDoS In highcharts
Description
Regular Expression Denial of Service in highcharts
Versions of highcharts prior to 6.1.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). Untrusted input may cause catastrophic backtracking while matching regular expressions. This can cause the application to be unresponsive leading to Denial of Service.
Recommendation
Upgrade to version 6.1.0 or higher.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
Ecosystem | Component | Affected version | Patched versions |
|---|---|---|---|
 npm | 6.1.0 |
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References
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