One should be aware of Regular Expression Denial of Service attack when validating user input on the backend. These seemingly simple regular expressions can cause infinite loops:
(a+)+ ([a-zA-Z]+)* (a|aa)+ (a|a?)+ (.*a){x} for x \> 10
Thanks for the info 😇
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One should be aware of Regular Expression Denial of Service attack when validating user input on the backend.
These seemingly simple regular expressions can cause infinite loops:
Thanks for the info 😇