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Advisory Weakness Curation

CVE-2014-8881

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Advisory Summaries

github_osv/GHSA-mvmf-cvfx-qg55

Regular Expression Denial of Service in bleach All versions of the `bleach` package are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service attack when certain types of input are passed into the sanitize function. ## Recommendation The `bleach` package is not currently maintained, and has not seen an update since 2014. To mitigate this issue, it is necessary to use an alternative module that is actively maintained and provides similar functionality. There are multiple modules fitting this criteria available on npm. https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=html%20sanitizer&page=1&ranking=optimal.

gitlab/npm/bleach/CVE-2014-8881

Regular Expression Denial of Service bleach is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) when certain types of input is passed into the sanitize function. This can lead to long processing time, hanging the process while they occur.