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fix:Potential ReDoS Vulnerability or Inefficient Regular Expression in Project: Need for Assessment and Mitigation

Open mmmsssttt404 opened this issue 5 months ago • 2 comments

Steps to reproduce Hello,

I am writing to report a potential Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability or Inefficient Regular Expression in the project. When using specially crafted input strings in the context, it may lead to extremely high CPU usage, application freezing, or denial of service attacks.

Location of Issue:

The vulnerability is related to a regular expression used in the following validation file, which may result in significantly prolonged execution times under certain conditions.

https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/blob/7cafa512a777048ce0b666080a24e80aae3d66a9/src/resolvers/exotics/hosted-git-resolver.js#L32-L36

1.git clone https://github.com/mmmsssttt404/yarn.git 2.yarn install 3.change test file 4.yarn test tests/resolvers/exotics/hosted-git-resolver.js

use time: 使用时间: 屏幕截图 2025-07-17 021736 屏幕截图 2025-07-09 100629

Proposed Solution: Change the regular expression to https://github.com/mmmsssttt404/yarn/blob/97731871e674bf93bcbf29e9d3258da8685f3076/src/resolvers/exotics/hosted-git-resolver.js#L32-L37

{29A65FAC-6467-4E9F-A64C-6E1E2050D24E} 屏幕截图 2025-07-17 021727

Thank you for your attention to this matter. Your evaluation and response to this potential security concern would be greatly appreciated.

Best regards,

Search keywords: ReDoS

mmmsssttt404 avatar Jul 16 '25 18:07 mmmsssttt404

as this fix is to address vulnerability here in https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8262 , will this be merged soon?

jonathandeclan avatar Aug 05 '25 02:08 jonathandeclan

@jonathandeclan

as this fix is to address vulnerability here in https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-8262 , will this be merged soon?

Probably not ... see the notice at the top level of the repo:

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  • There hasn't been any merge to the default branch since May 2024.

  • The CI workflow is unmaintained and failing. See https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/9069

MikeMcC399 avatar Sep 05 '25 16:09 MikeMcC399