Intel

AIKIDO-2025-10145

hugerte is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Mar 11, 2025

45

Medium Risk

This Affects:

jshugerte
1.0.0 - 1.0.7
Fixed in 1.0.8
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package are affected by a ReDoS vulnerability due to the unsafe usage of a polynomial regular expression in a package's native method designed to remove whitespace. Attackers can exploit this vulnerability by crafting malicious input that triggers excessive backtracking in the regular expression, resulting in significant performance degradation or even denial of service.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

hugerte is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in versions 1.0.0 - 1.0.7.

How to fix this

Upgrade the hugerte library to the patch version.