CVE-2017-16137

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    CVE-2017-16137

    Published: 7 Jun 2018Last Modified: 11 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: 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://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501, https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534, https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- c61ae82bde19c6fdedfc6684817ff7eb541ff029
    Fixed -13abeae468fea297d0dccc50bc55590809241083

    Affected versions

    2.6.8
    2.6.7
    2.6.6
    2.6.5
    2.6.4
    2.6.3
    2.6.2
    2.6.1
    2.6.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High