CVE-2017-16137 (GCVE-0-2017-16137)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:00
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HackerOne debug node module Affected: <= 2.6.8 || >= 3.0.0 <= 3.0.1
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Date Public
2018-04-26 00:00
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