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/**
* @name Inefficient regular expression
* @description A regular expression that requires exponential time to match certain inputs
* can be a performance bottleneck, and may be vulnerable to denial-of-service
* attacks.
* @kind problem
* @problem.severity error
* @security-severity 7.5
* @precision high
* @id js/redos
* @tags security
* external/cwe/cwe-1333
* external/cwe/cwe-730
* external/cwe/cwe-400
*/
import javascript
import semmle.javascript.security.regexp.NfaUtils
import semmle.javascript.security.regexp.ExponentialBackTracking
from RegExpTerm t, string pump, State s, string prefixMsg
where hasReDoSResult(t, pump, s, prefixMsg)
select t,
"This part of the regular expression may cause exponential backtracking on strings " + prefixMsg +
"containing many repetitions of '" + pump + "'."