Polynomial regular expression used on uncontrolled data in nitrado.js

HIGH 7.5CVE-2022-36034 · GHSA-vqc4-v8hc-h2jg · Published 29/08/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-36034 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting nitrado.js (nitrado.js project), nitrado.js.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.94%, higher than 61.3% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.2.5 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
nitrado.js nitrado.js_project	`< 0.2.5`	`0.2.5`
nitrado.js npm	`< 0.2.5`	`0.2.5`

Description

Impact

Possible ReDoS with lib input of {{ and with many repetitions of {{|

Patches

Patched in all versions above 0.2.5

Workarounds

No known work arounds.

References

OWASP: Regular expression Denial of Service - ReDoS
Wikipedia: ReDoS.
Wikipedia: Time complexity.
James Kirrage, Asiri Rathnayake, Hayo Thielecke: Static Analysis for Regular Expression Denial-of-Service Attack.
Common Weakness Enumeration: CWE-1333.
Common Weakness Enumeration: CWE-400.

NVD description

nitrado.js is a type safe wrapper for the Nitrado API. Possible ReDoS with lib input of `{{` and with many repetitions of `{{|`. This issue has been patched in all versions above `0.2.5`. There are currently no known workarounds.

References

cainthebest/nitrado.js security advisory · WEB
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-36034 · ADVISORY
cainthebest/nitrado.js · PACKAGE
cainthebest/nitrado.js · WEB

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