hosted-git-info is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS). An attacker can provide a malicious string via shortcutMatch
in the function fromUrl()
in index.js
to crash the application.
cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/29adfe5ef789784c861b2cdeb15051ec2ba651a7
github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/8d4b3697d79bcd89cdb36d1db165e3696c783a01
github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/bede0dc38e1785e732bf0a48ba6f81a4a908eba3
github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commits/v2
github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/pull/76