GHSA-f522-ffg8-j8r6

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    GHSA-f522-ffg8-j8r6

    Published: 24 Oct 2017Last Modified: 17 Oct 2025
    Aliases:
    CVE-2016-2537

    Summary: Regular Expression Denial of Service in is-my-json-valid

    Details: Version of `is-my-json-valid` before 2.12.4 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) via the email validation function. ## Recommendation Update to version 2.12.4 or later.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-2537, https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/4850, https://github.com/mafintosh/is-my-json-valid/pull/159, https://github.com/mafintosh/is-my-json-valid/commit/b3051b277f7caa08cd2edc6f74f50aeda65d2976, https://github.com/mafintosh/is-my-json-valid/commit/eca4beb21e61877d76fdf6bea771f72f39544d9b, https://hackerone.com/reports/317548, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f522-ffg8-j8r6, https://github.com/mafintosh/is-my-json-valid, https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/572, https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/76

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: is-my-json-valid

    Purl: pkg:npm/is-my-json-valid

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.12.4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High