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@hapi/content: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in HTTP header parsingGHSA-jg4p-7fhp-p32p

HIGHFix: hapijs/content#38

GHSA-jg4p-7fhp-p32p is a high-severity (CVSS 7.5) CWE-1333 vulnerability in @hapi/content. A fix is available for @hapi/content — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
None indexed
Exploitation data as of Nov 11, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

Exploitation Status

No confirmed exploitation observed yet

  • CISA assesses this as automatable — exploitation doesn’t require manual, per-target effort, which raises the odds of mass scanning and opportunistic attacks.
  • CISA’s own triage has not observed active exploitation or public proof-of-concept code for this CVE as of its last assessment.

Exploitation and automatability from CISA’s SSVC triage for GHSA-jg4p-7fhp-p32p.

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.5%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs41th percentile — riskier than 41% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.32%0.64%0.97%0.5%0.5%Nov 26Nov 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

Where this sits among everything scored

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

11other npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
@hapi/contentnpm
2.0Mdownloads / week

Description

All versions of @hapi/content through 6.0.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via crafted HTTP header values. Three regular expressions used to parse Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers contain patterns susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. This has been fixed in v6.0.1.

Impact

Denial of Service. An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a Node.js process to become unresponsive by sending a single HTTP request with a maliciously crafted header value.

Patches

Fixed by tightening all three regular expressions to eliminate backtracking.

Workarounds

There are no known workarounds. Upgrade to the patched version.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npm@hapi/contentall versions6.0.1npm install @hapi/content@6.0.1

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency
  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for @hapi/content, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update @hapi/content to 6.0.1 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms GHSA-jg4p-7fhp-p32p is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Cap what an attacker can consume: apply request size, rate and timeout limits in front of the affected component, and run it with memory and CPU limits so exhaustion degrades one worker rather than the whole service.

Frequently Asked Questions

All versions of `@hapi/content` through 6.0.0 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via crafted HTTP header values. Three regular expressions used to parse `Content-Type` and `Content-Disposition` headers contain patterns susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. This has been fixed in v6.0.1. ### Impact Denial of Service. An unauthenticated remote attacker can cause a Node.js process to become unresponsive by sending a single HTTP request with a maliciously crafted header value. ### Patches Fixed by tightening all three regular expressions to eliminate backtrackin
O3 Security · Impact-Aware SCA

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