CVE-2017-20162: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

January 5, 2023 (updated January 10, 2023)

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in vercel ms up to 1.x. This issue affects the function parse of the file index.js. The manipulation of the argument str leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.0.0 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is caae2988ba2a37765d055c4eee63d383320ee662. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217451.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-w9mr-4mfr-499f
github.com/vercel/ms/commit/caae2988ba2a37765d055c4eee63d383320ee662
github.com/vercel/ms/pull/89
github.com/vercel/ms/releases/tag/2.0.0
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-20162
vuldb.com/?ctiid.217451
vuldb.com/?id.217451

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