VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2017-16137
The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter.
MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 2.80%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.80%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- EPSS
- 2.80% probability · 86th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- debug project/debug
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
References
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.