CVE-2017-16115

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-16115
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-07 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-02-20 16:24:00 UTC
DescriptionThe timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Given 50k characters of untrusted user input it will block the event loop for around 10 seconds.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Timespan Project Timespan All All All All
Application Timespan Project Timespan All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Vulnerable Regular Expressions · Issue #10 · indexzero/TimeSpan.js · GitHub MISC github.com Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983946 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for timespan (GHSA-f523-2f5j-gfcg)

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