7.5high

CVE-2017-16113

Regular Expression Denial of Service in parsejson

Also known as GHSA-q75g-2496-mxpp

Published 8 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON

CVSS
7.5
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
1.5%
percentile 74%
Public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The parsejson module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into it to be parsed.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.49% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned byVersionScoreVector
NVD3.07.5CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD2.05.0AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npmparsejson
<=0.0.3
no fix listed

Affected products

  • HackerOne parsejson node module

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

vulnwire keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA; records that alias each other are merged. Machine-readable: JSON.