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Ubuntu: USN-5216-1 (CVE-2021-23362): hosted-git-info vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5216-1 (CVE-2021-23362): hosted-git-info vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/23/2021
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-node-hosted-git-info

References

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