Description
The package url-js before 2.1.0 are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation due to improper parsing, which makes it is possible for the hostname to be spoofed. http://\\\\\\\\localhost and http://localhost are the same URL. However, the hostname is not parsed as localhost, and the backslash is reflected as it is.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/duzun/URL.js/commit/9dc9fcc99baa4cbda24403d81a589e9b0f4121d0
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-URLJS-2414030
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