GMS-2016-36: Regular Expression Denial of Service

June 20, 2016

The primary function, minimatch(path, pattern) is vulnerable to ReDoS in the pattern parameter. This is because of the regular expression on line of minimatch.js: /((?:\\{2})*)(\\?)\|/g,. The problematic portion of the regex is ((?:\\{2})*) which matches against //.

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