CVE-2017-16137

Summary

CVECVE-2017-16137
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-07 02:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:40:00 UTC
DescriptionThe debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Debug Project Debug All All All All
Application Debug Project Debug All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
Overview MISC nodesecurity.io Third Party Advisory
fix: remove ReDoS regexp by zhuangya · Pull Request #504 · visionmedia/debug · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Vulnerable Regular Expression · Issue #501 · visionmedia/debug · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983967 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for debug (GHSA-gxpj-cx7g-858c)

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