Regular Expression Denial-of-Service in websocket-extensions
Welcome to the newest Snyk blog series! In this monthly series, Snyk looks back on the vulnerabilities discovered by or reported to our research team. We choose one noteworthy vulnerability from the past month and tell the story behind the discovery, research, and disclosure of the vulnerability. We highlight the researchers, developers, and users who are helping identify and remediate vulnerabilities across the open source community.
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