From 63d35f8f6db6d90d6142132d2d5f0bd5d3d698aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard van Velzen Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:28:27 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Prevent ReDoS by not using a regexp to verify floating point numbers `parseFloat` will return `NaN` for invalid numbers anyway, which is the check used to throw the parse error. Fixes #857 --- lib/parse.js | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/lib/parse.js b/lib/parse.js index 1ab03589..4c548a26 100644 --- a/lib/parse.js +++ b/lib/parse.js @@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ var OPERATOR_CHARS = makePredicate(characters("+-*&%=<>!?|~^")); var RE_HEX_NUMBER = /^0x[0-9a-f]+$/i; var RE_OCT_NUMBER = /^0[0-7]+$/; -var RE_DEC_NUMBER = /^\d*\.?\d*(?:e[+-]?\d*(?:\d\.?|\.?\d)\d*)?$/i; var OPERATORS = makePredicate([ "in", @@ -182,7 +181,7 @@ function parse_js_number(num) { return parseInt(num.substr(2), 16); } else if (RE_OCT_NUMBER.test(num)) { return parseInt(num.substr(1), 8); - } else if (RE_DEC_NUMBER.test(num)) { + } else { return parseFloat(num); } }; -- 2.34.1