Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39157",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-39157",
    "summary": "detect-character-encoding is an open source character encoding inspection library. In detect-character-encoding v0.6.0 and earlier, data matching no charset causes the Node.js process to crash. The problem has been patched in [detect-character-encoding v0.7.0](https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/releases/tag/v0.7.0). No workaround are available and all users should update to resolve this issue.",
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    "severity": "high",
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          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
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              "repo": "https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding",
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                      {
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            "v0.2.1",
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            "v0.1.0"
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                "source": "https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/992a11007fff6cfd40b952150ab8d30410c4a20a",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T14:29:19.939569674Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/commit/992a11007fff6cfd40b952150ab8d30410c4a20a",
        "https://github.com/sonicdoe/detect-character-encoding/issues/15",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 389064,
  "published_at": "2021-08-24T19:15:32.127+00:00"
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