@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest is the Octokit plugin to paginate REST API endpoint responses. For versions starting in 1.0.0 and prior to 11.4.1 of the npm package @octokit/plugin-paginate-rest
, when calling octokit.paginate.iterator()
, a specially crafted octokit
instance—particularly with a malicious link
parameter in the headers
section of the request
—can trigger a ReDoS attack. Version 11.4.1 contains a fix for the issue.
The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.
Attackers can create crafted inputs that
intentionally cause the regular expression to use
excessive backtracking in a way that causes the CPU
consumption to spike.