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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVE-2024-27088

High
7.5/10

Summary

es5-ext contains ECMAScript 5 extensions. Passing functions with very long names or complex default argument names into "function#copy" or "function#toStringTokens" may cause the script to stall. This issue affects es5-ext versions 0.10.0 through 0.10.62.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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  • HIGH

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

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  • Published