CVE-2017-16115 (GCVE-0-2017-16115)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 01:12
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Summary
The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Given 50k characters of untrusted user input it will block the event loop for around 10 seconds.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HackerOne timespan node module Affected: All versions
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Date Public
2018-04-26 00:00
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