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regular-expressions
Safeguard articles tagged "regular-expressions" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
3 articles
Application Security
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) explained
ReDoS turns a single crafted string into an exponential-time attack. Here's how catastrophic backtracking works, real CVEs, and how to detect it.
May 29, 20265 min read
Industry Analysis
ReDoS: Regular Expression Denial of Service Attacks
ReDoS took down Cloudflare's global network for 27 minutes in 2019 and Stack Overflow in 2016. Here's how one bad regex causes an outage, and how to catch it first.
Nov 8, 20258 min read
Application Security
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS): When Patterns Attack
A single poorly written regex can take down your server. ReDoS is a subtle denial-of-service vulnerability hiding in dependencies you have never audited.
Aug 20, 20214 min read