GMS-2016-49: ReDoS via long string of semicolons

July 22, 2016

Tough-cookie contain a vulnerable regular expression that, under certain conditions involving long strings of semicolons in the “Set-Cookie” header, causes the event loop to block for excessive amounts of time.

References

github.com/SalesforceEng/tough-cookie/pull/68

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