Description
Versions of the package semver before 7.5.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the function new Range, when untrusted user data is provided as a range.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/npm/node-semver/commit/717534ee353682f3bcf33e60a8af4292626d4441
https://github.com/npm/node-semver/blob/main/internal/re.js%23L138
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-SEMVER-3247795
https://github.com/npm/node-semver/blob/main/internal/re.js%23L160
https://github.com/npm/node-semver/blob/main/classes/range.js%23L97-L104
https://github.com/npm/node-semver/pull/564
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