Description
Fedify is a TypeScript library for building federated server apps powered by ActivityPub. Prior to versions 1.6.13, 1.7.14, 1.8.15, and 1.9.2, 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. This issue has been patched in versions 1.6.13, 1.7.14, 1.8.15, and 1.9.2.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HWeakness enumeration
Affected software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| fedify-dev | fedify | < 1.6.13; >= 1.7.0, < 1.7.14; >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.15; >= 1.9.0, < 1.9.2 |
References
- https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/commit/2bdcb24d7d6d5886e0214ed504b63a6dc5488779Patch
- https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/commit/bf2f0783634efed2663d1b187dc55461ee1f987aPatch
- https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.6.13Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.7.14Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.8.15Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/releases/tag/1.9.2Product, Release Notes
- https://github.com/fedify-dev/fedify/security/advisories/GHSA-rchf-xwx2-hm93Exploit, Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Timeline
- Published
- Dec 22, 2025
- Last modified
- Sep 28, 2026
- NVD status
- Analyzed