parse-duration has a Regex Denial of Service that results in event loop delay and out of memory
This report finds 2 availability issues due to the regex used in the parse-duration npm package: An event loop delay due to the CPU-bound operation of resolving the provided string, from a 0.5ms and up to ~50ms per one operation, with a varying size from 0.01 MB and up to 4.3 MB respectively. An out of memory that would crash a running Node.js application due to a string size of …