CVE-2017-16117: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

slug is a module to slugify strings, even if they contain unicode. slug is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service is specially crafted untrusted input is passed as input. About k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16117

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