High severity - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability in micromatch (package.json)

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• Package Manager: npm
• Vulnerable module: micromatch
• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0, check-dependencies@1.1.0 and others

Detailed paths

• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0 › check-dependencies@1.1.0 › findup-sync@2.0.0 › micromatch@3.1.10
• Introduced through: juice-shop@12.3.0 › grunt@1.4.1 › grunt-cli@1.4.3 › liftup@3.0.1 › findup-sync@4.0.0 › micromatch@4.0.4

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity due to the use of unsafe pattern configurations that allow greedy matching through the micromatch.braces() function. An attacker can cause the application to hang or slow down by passing a malicious payload that triggers extensive backtracking in regular expression processing.

Remediation

Upgrade micromatch to version 4.0.6 or higher.

References

• GitHub Issue
• GitHub PR
• Vulnerable Code
  
  SNYK-JS-MICROMATCH-6838728
  (CVE-2024-4067) micromatch@3.1.10