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Red Hat: CVE-2020-7754: CVE-2020-7754 nodejs-npm-user-validate: improper input validation when validating user emails leads to ReDoS (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-7754: CVE-2020-7754 nodejs-npm-user-validate: improper input validation when validating user emails leads to ReDoS (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
10/27/2020
Created
02/18/2021
Added
02/17/2021
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

This affects the package npm-user-validate before 1.0.1. The regex that validates user emails took exponentially longer to process long input strings beginning with @ characters.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-docs
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-full-i18n
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-nodemon
  • redhat-upgrade-nodejs-packaging
  • redhat-upgrade-npm

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