Description
Fedify is a TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub. Prior to versions 1.6.13, 1.7.14, 1.8.15, and 1.9.2, a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in Fedify's document loader. The HTML parsing regex at packages/fedify/src/runtime/docloader.ts:259 contains nested quantifiers that cause catastrophic backtracking when processing maliciously crafted HTML responses. This issue has been patched in versions 1.6.13, 1.7.14, 1.8.15, and 1.9.2.
Problem types
CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Product status
>= 1.7.0, < 1.7.14
>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.15
>= 1.9.0, < 1.9.2
References
github.com/...fedify/security/advisories/GHSA-rchf-xwx2-hm93
github.com/...ommit/2bdcb24d7d6d5886e0214ed504b63a6dc5488779
github.com/...ommit/bf2f0783634efed2663d1b187dc55461ee1f987a
github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.6.13
github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.7.14
github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.8.15
github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.9.2
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