Regular Expression Denial of Service
A Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in esm before 3.1.0. The issue is that esm's find-indexes is using the unescaped identifiers in a regex, which, in this case, causes an infinite loop.
Affected software
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| Platform | Package | Vulnerable versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm package | esm | < 3.1.0 | 3.1.0 |
References
- Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400- Platform
- npm
- Package
esm- Disclosed
- 20.06.2019
- Updated
- 11.10.2026 10:22
Sources and licenses
OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-qx4v-6gc5-f2vv - CC BY 4.0
Vulnerability history: esm
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