CVE-2015-8858 (GCVE-0-2015-8858)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-23 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:29
VLAI
Summary
The uglify-js package before 2.6.0 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input in a parse call, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/48 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2015-10-24 00:00
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