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    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/44536?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-czmn-qkg7-9bdu",
    "summary": "Denial of Service vulnerability in lite-web-server\nAll versions of the package lite-web-server is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when an attacker sends an HTTP request and includes control characters that the decodeURI() function is unable to parse.",
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