CVE-2021-23362: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

March 23, 2021 (updated August 8, 2023)

The package hosted-git-info is 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.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23362

Code Behaviors & Features

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