CVE-2022-3517: Regular Expression Denial of Service

October 17, 2022 (updated November 7, 2023)

A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.

References

github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer/issues/329
github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/a8763f4388e51956be62dc6025cec1126beeb5e6
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-3517

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