lhartikk / naivechain

A blockchain implementation in 200 lines of code
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Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) #42

Open larrycameron80 opened 5 years ago

larrycameron80 commented 5 years ago

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Vulnerable module: fresh Introduced through: express@4.11.2 Detailed paths Introduced through: naivechain@lhartikk/naivechain#dfd2481e7158f72e54fba4ce0bd2f48d0a44945e › express@4.11.2 › fresh@0.2.4 Remediation: Upgrade to express@4.15.5. Introduced through: naivechain@lhartikk/naivechain#dfd2481e7158f72e54fba4ce0bd2f48d0a44945e › express@4.11.2 › send@0.11.1 › fresh@0.2.4 Remediation: Upgrade to express@4.15.5. Introduced through: naivechain@lhartikk/naivechain#dfd2481e7158f72e54fba4ce0bd2f48d0a44945e › express@4.11.2 › serve-static@1.8.1 › send@0.11.1 › fresh@0.2.4 Remediation: Upgrade to express@4.15.5. Overview fresh is HTTP response freshness testing.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks. A Regular Expression (/ , /) was used for parsing HTTP headers and take about 2 seconds matching time for 50k characters.