CVE-2017-16116

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-16116
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-07 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:24:00 UTC
DescriptionThe string module is a module that provides extra string operations. The string module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application String Project String All All All All
Application String Project String All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Patch, Third Party Advisory
Vulnerable Regular Expressions · Issue #212 · jprichardson/string.js · 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

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983955 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for string (GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp)

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