The following regular expression used in parsing the HTML documents is vulnerable to ReDoS:
The slowdown is moderately low: for 50.000 characters around 2.5 seconds matching time. However, I would still suggest one of the following:
- remove the regex,
- anchor the regex,
- limit the number of characters that can be matched by the repetition,
- limit the input size.
If needed, I can provide an actual example showing the slowdown.
The following regular expression used in parsing the HTML documents is vulnerable to ReDoS:
/(^\s+|\s+$)/gThe slowdown is moderately low: for 50.000 characters around 2.5 seconds matching time. However, I would still suggest one of the following:
If needed, I can provide an actual example showing the slowdown.