5.3med
CVE-2017-16137
Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug
Also known as GHSA-gxpj-cx7g-858c
Published 8 y ago · modified 23 d ago · JSON
CVSS
5.3
v3.0 · NVD
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
2.8%
percentile 87%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
CISA SSVC assessment
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 23 d ago
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
2.83% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
| NVD | 2.0 | 5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| GitHub | 3.1 | 3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| npm | debug | <2.6.9 >=3.0.0, <3.1.0 >=3.2.0, <3.2.7 >=4.0.0, <4.3.1 | 2.6.9 3.1.0 3.2.7 4.3.1 |
Affected products
- HackerOne debug node module
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- github.com /visionmedia/debug/pull/504 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- github.com /visionmedia/debug/issues/501 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- nodesecurity.io /advisories/534 · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
- lists.apache.org /thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbea · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
- lists.apache.org /thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications. · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
- nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16137 · advisory
- github.com /debug-js/debug/issues/797 · web
- github.com /debug-js/debug/commit/4e2150207c568adb9ead8f4c4528016081c88020 · web
- github.com /debug-js/debug/commit/71169065b5262f9858ac78cc0b688c84a438f290 · web
- github.com /debug-js/debug/commit/b6d12fdbc63b483e5c969da33ea6adc09946b5ac · web
- github.com /debug-js/debug/commit/f53962e944a87e6ca9bb622a2a12dffc22a9bb5a · web
- github.com /visionmedia/debug · package
- lists.apache.org /thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3@%3Ccommits.netbeans · web
- lists.apache.org /thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63@%3Cnotifications.ne · web
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2017-16137
- GitHub Advisory: GHSA-gxpj-cx7g-858c
- NVD: CVE-2017-16137
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