Vulnerability CVE-2016-10707
Published: 2018-01-18   Modified: 2018-01-19

Description:
jQuery 3.0.0-rc.1 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to removing a logic that lowercased attribute names. Any attribute getter using a mixed-cased name for boolean attributes goes into an infinite recursion, exceeding the stack call limit.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Jquery -> Jquery 

 References:
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/3133
https://github.com/jquery/jquery/pull/3134
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery:20160529
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