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Terser insecure use of regular expressions leads to ReDoS

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 16, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 11, 2023

Package

npm terser (npm)

Affected versions

< 4.8.1
>= 5.0.0, < 5.14.2

Patched versions

4.8.1
5.14.2

Description

The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jul 15, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 16, 2022
Reviewed Jul 20, 2022
Last updated Apr 11, 2023

Severity

High
7.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-25858

GHSA ID

GHSA-4wf5-vphf-c2xc

Source code

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