Addressable could be made to consume resources and cause a denial of service if it received specially crafted input.
It was discovered that Addressable incorrectly handled certain URI templates, generating regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could use this issue to craft a URI that, when matched against a vulnerable template, causes excessive resource consumption, leading to a denial of service.
It was discovered that Addressable incorrectly handled certain URI templates, generating regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could use this issue to craft a URI that, when matched against a vulnerable template, causes excessive resource consumption, leading to a denial of service.
It was discovered that Addressable incorrectly handled certain URI templates, generating regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could use this issue to craft a URI that, when matched against a vulnerable template, causes excessive resource consumption, leading to a denial of service.
It was discovered that Addressable incorrectly handled certain URI templates, generating regular expressions vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking. An attacker could use this issue to craft a URI that, when matched against a vulnerable template, causes excessive resource consumption, leading to a denial of service.
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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