Description
The package hosted-git-info before 3.0.8 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via regular expression shortcutMatch in the fromUrl function in index.js. The affected regular expression exhibits polynomial worst-case time complexity.
Remediation
References
https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-389290.pdf
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/29adfe5ef789784c861b2cdeb15051ec2ba651a7
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/8d4b3697d79bcd89cdb36d1db165e3696c783a01
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commit/bede0dc38e1785e732bf0a48ba6f81a4a908eba3
https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/commits/v2
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1088356
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HOSTEDGITINFO-1088355
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