Summary
The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue. This vulnerability is a reintroduction of CVE-2017-16137 in version 3.2.0.
Product
debug before 4.3.1.
Impact
The impact of this vulnerability is considered low due to the low severity of the issue.
Remediation
Update the debug dependency to 4.3.1 or above.
Credit
This issue was discovered and reported by Checkmarx SCA Security Researcher Yaniv Nizry.
