CVE-2015-8858: Regular Expression Denial of Service

January 23, 2017 (updated March 1, 2017)

uglify-js is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) when certain types of input is passed into .parse(). A regular expression leading to a very long processing time can be used to make the program hang for a very long time.

References

cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8858

Code Behaviors & Features

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