Comment by swiftcoder

21 hours ago

> Who knew a regex engine was such a security issue

Anyone who has ever implemented a regex engine, I would imagine. Regex has always been a security nightmare, especially due to persistent attempts to use regexes to validate untrusted input

> especially due to persistent attempts to use regexes to validate untrusted input

This is not the case here, it's an untrusted regex which can be the issue.