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GHSA-G36H-6R4F-3MQP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2018-07-24 20:16 – Updated: 2023-09-12 20:48

Summary

Regular Expression Denial of Service in string package

Details

Affected versions of string are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.

Recommendation

There is currently no direct patch for this vulnerability.

Currently, the best solution is to avoid passing user input to the underscore and unescapeHTML methods.

Alternatively, a user provided patch is available in Pull Request #217, however this patch has not been tested, nor has it been merged by the package author.

Severity

7.5 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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CVE-2017-16116 (GCVE-0-2017-16116)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 19:35

Summary

The string module is a module that provides extra string operations. The string module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)

Assigner

hackerone mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212	x_refsource_MISC
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/536	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	string node module	Affected: All versions

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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