Regular expression denial of service in markdown-link-extractor
Low severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Jun 3, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 27, 2023
Package
Affected versions
< 3.0.2
>= 4.0.0, < 4.0.1
Patched versions
3.0.2
4.0.1
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jun 2, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jun 3, 2022
Reviewed
Jun 3, 2022
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the markdown-link-extractor npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the module's exported function
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