CVE-2017-16021: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 4, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

uri-js is a module that tries to fully implement RFC One of these features is validating whether a supplied URL is valid or not. To do this, uri-js uses a regular expression, This regular expression is vulnerable to redos.

References

github.com/garycourt/uri-js/issues/12
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16021

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