# CVE-2020-7754: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

- Also known as: GHSA-PW54-MH39-W3HC, GHSA-XGH6-85XH-479P
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.0.1
- Published: 2020-10-27 · Updated: 2024-09-17

## Affected

- n/a npm-user-validate: fixed in 1.0.1
- npm-user-validate (npm): fixed in 1.0.1

## Description

This affects the package npm-user-validate before 1.0.1. The regex that validates user emails took exponentially longer to process long input strings beginning with @ characters.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a npm-user-validate, npm-user-validate, upgrade to a fixed version (1.0.1) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NPMUSERVALIDATE-1019352
- https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1019353
- https://github.com/npm/npm-user-validate/security/advisories/GHSA-xgh6-85xh-479p
- https://github.com/npm/npm-user-validate/commit/c8a87dac1a4cc6988b5418f30411a8669bef204e

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