GMS-2017-213: Regular Expression Denial of Service

September 25, 2017

The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Given k characters of untrusted user input it will block the event loop for around seconds.

References

github.com/indexzero/TimeSpan.js/issues/10

Code Behaviors & Features

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