

The engine will match the first possible way to accept the current character and proceed to the next one. Most Regex engines will work very similarly (with minor differences). The dramatic difference is due to the way regular expressions get evaluated. But when given an invalid string, it takes nearly two seconds to complete the test, over ten times as long as it took to test a valid string. The entire process of testing it against a 30 characters long string takes around ~52ms. $ time node -e '/A(B|C+)+D/.test("ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCX")'ġ.79s user 0.02s system 99% cpu 1.812 total It most cases, it doesn't take very long for a regex engine to find a match: $ time node -e '/A(B|C+)+D/.test("ACCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCD")'Ġ.04s user 0.01s system 95% cpu 0.052 total The expression would match inputs such as ABBD, ABCCCCD, ABCBCCCD and ACCCCCD

This regular expression accomplishes the following: Let’s take the following regular expression as an example: regex = /A(B|C+)+D/ Regular expressions are incredibly powerful, but they aren't very intuitive and can ultimately end up making it easy for attackers to take your site down. The Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) is a type of Denial of Service attack. There are many types of DoS attacks, ranging from trying to clog the network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines (a Distributed Denial of Service - DDoS - attack) to sending crafted requests that cause a system to crash or take a disproportional amount of time to process. Detailsĭenial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its original and legitimate users. A Regular Expression ( / *, */) was used for parsing HTTP headers and take about 2 seconds matching time for 50k characters. I still managed to clear it tho, but I still recommend bringing grenade launcher since I had hard time going through the last part.Fresh is HTTP response freshness testing.Īffected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) attacks. I actually considered getting it back few times, even when I was in last part of treatment plant. When I finally managed to get myself back at the normal state with enough health and ammunition, I was so far away from the grenade launcher that I wasn't botherd to take it back (it would probably take like 30min to get it, also it was still risky due to ignored leech man and chimps), so I kept ignoring it. Followed by Bill and Rebecca split up etc. Monolith and hookshot takes a lot of spaces, and I couldn't go back and forth either, becuase of low health, low ammo (a lot of enemies I ignored becuase of it), bat boss fight, and baboons. If you don't want to risk yourself going back to the training facility from the church route, you can wait till you activate the master elevator that will allow you to go back from the treatment plant to the training faciilty through the train crash site (which at that point zombies in there will disappear) Oh no, I left the grenade launcher when I was going to the lab. Originally posted by Lanzagranadas:You can get it back anytime.
