A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the validateBaseUrl function can cause the application to use excessive resources, become unresponsive, or crash. This was introduced in react-native version 0.59.0 and fixed in version 0.64.1.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1920
Reference (s):
- https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.64.1
- URL: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/releases/tag/v0.64.1
- https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/ca09ae82715e33c9ac77b3fa55495cf84ba891c7
- URL: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/ca09ae82715e33c9ac77b3fa55495cf84ba891c7