GHSA-xfhp-gmh8-r8v2

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GHSA-xfhp-gmh8-r8v2

Summary: printf vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Details: The package printf before 0.6.1 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the regex string ```regex /\%(?:\(([\w_.]+)\)|([1-9]\d*)\$)?([0 +\-\]*)(\*|\d+)?(\.)?(\*|\d+)?[hlL]?([\%bscdeEfFgGioOuxX])/g ``` in `lib/printf.js`. The vulnerable regular expression has cubic worst-case time complexity.

References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-23354, https://github.com/adaltas/node-printf/issues/31, https://github.com/adaltas/node-printf/pull/32, https://github.com/adaltas/node-printf/commit/a8502e7c9b0b22555696a2d8ef67722086413a68, https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PRINTF-1072096