GHSA-4gmj-3p3h-gm8hLow

es5-ext vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in `function#copy` and `function#toStringTokens`

Published
February 26, 2024
Last Modified
March 15, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

Impact

Passing functions with very long names or complex default argument names into function#copy orfunction#toStringTokens may put script to stall

Patches

Fixed with https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/commit/3551cdd7b2db08b1632841f819d008757d28e8e2 and https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/commit/a52e95736690ad1d465ebcd9791d54570e294602 Published with v0.10.63

Workarounds

No real workaround aside of refraining from using above utilities.

References

https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/issues/201

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/es5-ext:>= 0.10.0, < 0.10.63

🔗 References (6)