Vulnerability CVE-2017-16137
Published: 2018-06-06   Modified: 2018-06-07

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.

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
Debug project -> Debug 

 References:
https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501
https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534
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