[Varriount]

I get what a regular expression like that does, but what leads to it being executed?

[Hackbraten]

No idea. All I know is whenever I try to execute the module in e.g. VS Code's debugger, it somehow triggers the attack and enters a de-facto-endless 100%-CPU-load loop.

[DonHopkins]

Now you have two problems!

https://blog.codinghorror.com/regular-expressions-now-you-ha...