Description
In js/parts/SvgRenderer.js in Highcharts JS before 6.1.0, the use of backtracking regular expressions permitted an attacker to conduct a denial of service attack against the SVGRenderer component, aka ReDoS.
Remediation
References
https://github.com/highcharts/highcharts/commit/7c547e1e0f5e4379f94396efd559a566668c0dfa
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190715-0001/
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:highcharts:20180225
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