GHSA-8h55-q5qq-p685

(ReDoS) Regular Expression Denial of Service in tf2-item-format

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2024-41655

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	tf2-item-format	>= 4.2.6, < 5.9.14	5.9.14

Details

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## Summary Versions of `tf2-item-format` since at least `4.2.6` are vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attack when parsing crafted user input. ## Tested Versions - `5.9.13` - `5.8.10` - `5.7.0` - `5.6.17` - `4.3.5` - `4.2.6` ### v5 Upgrade package to `^5.9.14` ### v4 No patch exists. Please consult the [v4 to v5 migration guide](https://github.com/danocmx/node-tf2-item-format?tab=readme-ov-file#migrating-from-v4-to-v5) to upgrade to v5. If upgrading to v5 is not possible, fork the module repository and implement the fix detailed below. ## Impact This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to perform DoS attacks on any service that uses any `tf2-item-format` to parse user input.

References

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