CVE-2021-36716: Improper Input Validation

July 14, 2021 (updated May 3, 2022)

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the Segment is-email package for Node.js. An attacker that is able to provide crafted input to the isEmail(input) function may cause an application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-36716
segment.com/docs/release_notes/2021-07-13-cve-2021-36716/

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