GHSA-p9w8-2mpq-49h9

is-url Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2018-25079

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	is-url	< 1.2.3	1.2.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

A vulnerability was found in Segmentio is-url up to 1.2.2. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the file index.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be launched remotely. Upgrading to version 1.2.3 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is 149550935c63a98c11f27f694a7c4a9479e53794. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. VDB-220058 is the identifier assigned to this vulnerability.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-25079 advisory
https://github.com/segmentio/is-url/pull/18 web
https://github.com/segmentio/is-url/commit/149550935c63a98c11f27f694a7c4a9479e53794 web
https://github.com/segmentio/is-url package
https://github.com/segmentio/is-url/releases/tag/v1.2.3 web
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.220058 web
https://vuldb.com/?id.220058 web