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High · 7.5 CVE-2017-16116 EUVD-2018-0267GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp

Regular Expression Denial of Service in string package

Published Jun 7, 2018 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by hackerone

Description

The string module is a module that provides extra string operations. The string module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HackerOne string node module All versions —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm string <= 3.3.3 — GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp

References