VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-16115
The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.48%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.48%). 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
- 1.48% probability · 74th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- timespan project/timespan
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
EPSS 1.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
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, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.