CVE-2018-20801: Incorrect Regular Expression

March 14, 2019 (updated July 15, 2019)

In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20801

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