The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions.
Weakness
The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Terser | Terser | * | 4.8.1 (excluding) |
| Terser | Terser | 5.0.0 (including) | 5.14.2 (excluding) |
| Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.2 for RHEL 8 | RedHat | openshift-service-mesh/prometheus-rhel8:2.2.7-7 | * |
| RHINT Service Registry 2.3.0 GA | RedHat | terser | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Chromium-browser | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
| Node-terser | Ubuntu | focal | * |
| Node-terser | Ubuntu | impish | * |
| Node-terser | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Node-terser | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Node-terser | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Node-terser | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Node-terser | Ubuntu | plucky | * |
| Qt6-webengine | Ubuntu | kinetic | * |
| Qt6-webengine | Ubuntu | lunar | * |
| Qt6-webengine | Ubuntu | mantic | * |
| Qt6-webengine | Ubuntu | oracular | * |
| Qt6-webengine | Ubuntu | plucky | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
References
- https://github.com/terser/terser/blob/master/lib/compress/evaluate.js%23L135
- https://github.com/terser/terser/commit/a4da7349fdc92c05094f41d33d06d8cd4e90e76b
- https://github.com/terser/terser/commit/d8cc5691be980d663c29cc4d5ce67e852d597012
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2949722
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TERSER-2806366
- https://github.com/terser/terser/blob/master/lib/compress/evaluate.js%23L135
- https://github.com/terser/terser/commit/a4da7349fdc92c05094f41d33d06d8cd4e90e76b
- https://github.com/terser/terser/commit/d8cc5691be980d663c29cc4d5ce67e852d597012
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2949722
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TERSER-2806366