CVE-2017-16021: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

uri-js is a module that tries to fully implement RFC 3986. One of these features is validating whether or not a supplied URL is valid or not. To do this, uri-js uses a regular expression, This regular expression is vulnerable to redos. This causes the program to hang and the CPU to idle at 100%...

Regular Expression Denial Of Service (ReDoS)

uri-js is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. These attacks are possible through the regular expression that validates if a URL is validate. There is a flaw in the regular expression which causes the program to hang and the application to consume 100% of the CPU. This is only possible if...

Regular Expression Denial Of Service

Overview Affected versions of uri-js is susceptible to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when user input is sent to the .parse method. Recommendation Update to v3.0.0 or later. References - Issue 12 - GitHub Advisory...