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Fix: remove catastrophic backtracking vulnerability
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Change template substitution regex to exclude fields with whitespace.
This addresses possible O(n^2) catastrophic backtracking behavior.

Very unlikely to be exploited. For eslint#10002.
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davisjam committed Feb 24, 2018
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Expand Up @@ -13,7 +13,11 @@ module.exports = (text, data) => {
if (!data) {
return text;
}
return text.replace(/\{\{\s*([^{}]+?)\s*\}\}/g, (fullMatch, term) => {

// Substitution content for any {{ }} markers.
return text.replace(/\{\{([^{}]+?)\}\}/g, (fullMatch, termWithWhitespace) => {
const term = termWithWhitespace.trim();

if (term in data) {
return data[term];
}
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