Synopsis
A researcher at Tenable discovered an issue in the Showdownjs NPM package which could lead to a denial of service. Showndownjs' anchors subparser used to parse links has a nested regular expression which can lead to denial of service conditions given malicious input.
Proof of Concept:
# Run the time command with node, containing the vulnerable regex expression
time node -e '/\[((?:\[[^\]]*]|[^\[\]])*)] ?(?:\n *)?\[(.*?)]()()()()/g.test("[[[[[[[[[".repeat(9999))'
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