CVE-2014-8882

HIGH7.5

Regular Expression Denial of Service in validator

Published: 8/31/2020Modified: 11/8/2023

Description

Versions of `validator` prior to 3.22.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in the `isURL` method. ## Recommendation Update to version 3.22.1 or later.

Affected packages (1)

npm/validatorfrom 0, < 3.22.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (5)

ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8882
PATCHhttps://github.com/chriso/validator.js
WEBhttps://github.com/chriso/validator.js/issues/152#issuecomment-48107184
WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/npm:validator:20130705
WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/42