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Hi Fedify team! 👋 Thank you for your work on Fedify—it's a fantastic library for building federated applications. While reviewing the codebase, I discovered a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability that I'd like to report. I hope this helps improve the project's security. --- ## Summary A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in Fedify's document loader. The HTML parsing regex at `packages/fedify/src/runtime/docloader.ts:259` contains nested quantifiers that cause catastrophic backtracking when processing maliciously crafted HTML responses. **An attacker-controlled federated server can respond with a small (~170 bytes) malicious HTML payload that blocks the victim's Node.js event loop for 14+ seconds, causing a Denial of Service.** | Field | Value | |-------|-------| | **CWE** | CWE-1333 (Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity) | --- ## Details ### Vulnerable Code The vulnerability is located in `packages/fedify/src/runtime...

### Impact `Schema.load(data, many=True)` is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. A moderately sized request can consume a disproportionate amount of CPU time. ### Patches 4.1.2, 3.26.2 ### Workarounds ```py # Fail fast def load_many(schema, data, **kwargs): if not isinstance(data, list): raise ValidationError(['Invalid input type.']) return [schema.load(item, **kwargs) for item in data] ```

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