From bb84d86cf521fe6c25f12c3d07390289db87f96b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Donohue <tim.donohue@lyrasis.org>
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 14:26:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Fix code scanning alert no. 6: Incomplete string escaping or
 encoding

Co-authored-by: Copilot Autofix powered by AI <62310815+github-advanced-security[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
(cherry picked from commit 372444c50ac28a6c7f68b20695bea616a3ab8b7f)
---
 src/app/core/shared/metadata.utils.ts | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/app/core/shared/metadata.utils.ts b/src/app/core/shared/metadata.utils.ts
index 1ad10356fb5..f0290eac398 100644
--- a/src/app/core/shared/metadata.utils.ts
+++ b/src/app/core/shared/metadata.utils.ts
@@ -163,7 +163,7 @@ export class Metadata {
     const outputKeys: string[] = [];
     for (const inputKey of inputKeys) {
       if (inputKey.includes('*')) {
-        const inputKeyRegex = new RegExp('^' + inputKey.replace(/\./g, '\\.').replace(/\*/g, '.*') + '$');
+        const inputKeyRegex = new RegExp('^' + inputKey.replace(/\\/g, '\\\\').replace(/\./g, '\\.').replace(/\*/g, '.*') + '$');
         for (const mapKey of Object.keys(mdMap)) {
           if (!outputKeys.includes(mapKey) && inputKeyRegex.test(mapKey)) {
             outputKeys.push(mapKey);