Low

es5-ext vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service in `function#copy` and `function#toStringTokens`

  • Disclosed: 26.02.2024
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Impact

Passing functions with very long names or complex default argument names into function#copy orfunction#toStringTokens may put script to stall

Patches

Fixed with https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/commit/3551cdd7b2db08b1632841f819d008757d28e8e2 and https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/commit/a52e95736690ad1d465ebcd9791d54570e294602 Published with v0.10.63

Workarounds

No real workaround aside of refraining from using above utilities.

References

https://github.com/medikoo/es5-ext/issues/201

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package es5-ext >= 0.10.0, < 0.10.63 0.10.63

References

CVSS score -
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-1333
Platform
npm
Package
es5-ext
Disclosed
26.02.2024
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-4gmj-3p3h-gm8h - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: es5-ext

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This is the only known vulnerability of this package.

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