Regular Expression Denial of Service in slug
Affected versions of slug are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing untrusted user input.
The issue is low severity, as it takes 50,000 characters to cause the event loop to block for 2 seconds,
About 50k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds.
Recommendation
Update to version 0.9.2 or later.
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm package | slug | < 0.9.2 | 0.9.2 |
References
- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400- Platform
- npm
- Package
slug- Disclosed
- 24.07.2018
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 10:22
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9 - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: slug
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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.
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