Description
A vulnerability was found in nescalante urlregex up to 0.5.0 and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file index.js of the component Backtracking. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 0.5.1 is able to address this issue. The identifier of the patch is e5a085afe6abfaea1d1a78f54c45af9ef43ca1f9. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.
References (5)
Core 5
Core References
Third Party Advisory vdb-entry
https://vuldb.com/?id.276269
Permissions Required signature
permissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.276269
Exploit exploit
issue-tracking
https://github.com/nescalante/urlregex/pull/8
Release Notes patch
https://github.com/nescalante/urlregex/releases/tag/v0.5.1
Scores
CVSS v3
4.3
EPSS
0.0006
EPSS Percentile
19.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1333
Status
published
Products (2)
nescalante/urlregex
< 0.5.1
npm/urlregex
0 - 0.5.1npm
Published
Sep 02, 2024
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026