VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-16115
The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.50%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.50%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.50% probability · 73th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- timespan project/timespan
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
References
- https://github.com/indexzero/TimeSpan.js/issues/10Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/533Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/indexzero/TimeSpan.js/issues/10Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/533Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.