CVE-2017-16086
UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
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Description
ua-parser is a port of Browserscope's user agent parser. ua-parser is vulnerable to a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) attack when given a specially crafted UserAgent header.
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Advisory Details
Affected versions of `ua-parser` are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when given a specially crafted `User-Agent` header.
## Recommendation
No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.
The best mitigation is currently to avoid using this package, using a different, functionally equivalent package such as [useragent](https://www.npmjs.com/package/useragent).
Affected Packages
npm
ua-parser
ECOSYSTEM:
≥0
≤0.3.5
CVSS Scoring
CVSS Score
7.5
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: July 24, 2018, Modified: January 8, 2021
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Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-17T00:31:35.528Z
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