Medium USN-5216-1 1 CVE

node-hosted-git-info vulnerability

Published Sep 2, 2022 · Updated Feb 10, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that hosted-git-info incorrectly handled certain inputs. A
remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service.

Fixed packages 2

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 18.04 LTS Pro:18.04:LTS	node-hosted-git-info	2.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
Ubuntu · Pro 20.04 LTS Pro:20.04:LTS	node-hosted-git-info	2.8.5-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Vulnerabilities 1

Medium 5.3

CVE-2021-23362

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.

js-jquery hosted-git-info node-hosted-git-info node-hosted-git-info Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux npm

Mar 23, 2021

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-23362