CVE-2018-13863

Summary

CVECVE-2018-13863
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-07-10 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-03 00:03:00 UTC
DescriptionThe MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mongodb Js-bson All All All All
Application Mongodb Js-bson All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in bson | Snyk MISC snyk.io Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
fix(decimal128): add basic guard against REDOS attacks · mongodb/js-bson@bd61c45 · GitHub MISC github.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 983773 Nodejs (npm) Security Update for bson (GHSA-8462-q7x7-g2x4)
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