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    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/240446?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-7fnb-yfbq-bfeh",
    "summary": "A regular expression denial of service issue has been discovered in NuGet API affecting all versions of GitLab starting from version 12.8.",
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