The first time I ever encountered a regular expression was many years ago now, but I still remember my first thoughts on it: What is this string-like thing? I don’t want to touch it, it looks scary. I ...

Regular expressions have been part of the programmer’s toolkit for a long time, with their creation by Stephen Cole King in 1951. Their ability to match word patterns make them a powerful tool for ...

I first heard about regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerabilities from GitHub's Dependabot. Several of my projects over the years have had dependencies that suffered from ReDoS ...

In NPM debug, the enable function accepts a regular expression from user input without escaping it. Arbitrary regular expressions could be injected to cause a Denial of Service attack on the user's ...