CVE-2017-16137
UNKNOWN
Published 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
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Description
The 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.
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Advisory Details
Affected versions of `debug` are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the `o` formatter.
As it takes 50,000 characters to block the event loop for 2 seconds, this issue is a low severity issue.
This was later re-introduced in version v3.2.0, and then repatched in versions 3.2.7 and 4.3.1.
## Recommendation
Version 2.x.x: Update to version 2.6.9 or later.
Version 3.1.x: Update to version 3.1.0 or later.
Version 3.2.x: Update to version 3.2.7 or later.
Version 4.x.x: Update to version 4.3.1 or later.
Affected Packages
npm
debug
ECOSYSTEM:
≥0
<2.6.9
npm
debug
ECOSYSTEM:
≥3.0.0
<3.1.0
npm
debug
ECOSYSTEM:
≥3.2.0
<3.2.7
npm
debug
ECOSYSTEM:
≥4.0.0
<4.3.1
CVSS Scoring
CVSS Score
2.5
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
References
Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: August 9, 2018, Modified: March 25, 2024
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Published: 2018-06-07T02:00:00Z
Last Modified: 2024-09-16T19:00:36.638Z
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