robots-txt-guard Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability
High severity
GitHub Reviewed
Published
Jan 5, 2023
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Jan 27, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Jan 5, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Jan 5, 2023
Reviewed
Jan 9, 2023
Last updated
Jan 27, 2023
A vulnerability was found in Woorank robots-txt-guard. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is the function makePathPattern of the file lib/patterns.js. The manipulation of the argument pattern leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is c03827cd2f9933619c23894ce7c98401ea824020. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217448.
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