tmpl vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity which may lead to resource exhaustion

HIGH 7.5CVE-2021-3777 · GHSA-jgrx-mgxx-jf9v · Published 15/09/2021 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2021-3777 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting tmpl (tmpl project), tmpl.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 70.8% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.0.5 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
tmpl tmpl_project	`< 1.0.5`	`1.0.5`
tmpl npm	`< 1.0.5`	`1.0.5`

nodejs-tmpl is simple string formatting. tmpl is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity which may lead to resource exhaustion.

NVD description

nodejs-tmpl is vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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