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Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Attack

ReDoS attack: Regular expression Denial of service

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) is an attack that takes advantage of the inefficiencies in many regular expression (Regex) engines, causing a program to slow down or become unresponsive. This occurs because certain Regex patterns and input combinations can trigger super-linear worst-case performance, where the time required for evaluation increases exponentially or polynomially… Read More »ReDoS attack: Regular expression Denial of service