CVE-2026-35213: @hapi/content: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in HTTP header parsing

April 4, 2026

All versions of @hapi/content through 6.0.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via crafted HTTP header values. Three regular expressions used to parse Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers contain patterns susceptible to catastrophic backtracking.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-jg4p-7fhp-p32p
github.com/hapijs/content
github.com/hapijs/content/pull/38
github.com/hapijs/content/security/advisories/GHSA-jg4p-7fhp-p32p
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35213

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