CVE-2017-16098
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2017-16098 |
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| State | PUBLIC |
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| Assigner | [email protected] |
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| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
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| Published | 2018-06-07 02:29:00 UTC |
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| Updated | 2019-10-09 23:24:00 UTC |
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| Description | charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low. |
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NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
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| Overview |
MISC |
nodesecurity.io |
Third Party Advisory |
| Vulnerable Regular Expression · Issue #10 · node-modules/charset · GitHub |
MISC |
github.com |
Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
| CVE Program record |
CVE.ORG |
www.cve.org |
canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail |
NVD |
nvd.nist.gov |
canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.
Legacy QID Mappings
- 983921 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for charset (GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj)
