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CVE-2020-7754 (GCVE-0-2020-7754)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-10-27 15:05 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:28
VLAI
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Summary
This affects the package npm-user-validate before 1.0.1. The regex that validates user emails took exponentially longer to process long input strings beginning with @ characters.
CWE
  • Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a npm-user-validate Affected: unspecified , < 1.0.1 (custom)
Date Public
2020-10-27 00:00
Credits
Show details on NVD website

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