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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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-1333 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Tags

Patch Broken Link Exploit Third Party Advisory Vendor Advisory