GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj

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    GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj

    Published: 9 Aug 2018Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023

    Summary: Regular Expression Denial of Service in charset

    Details: Affected versions of `charset` are susceptible to a regular expression denial of service. The amplification on this vulnerability is relatively low - it takes around 2 seconds for the engine to execute on a malicious input which is 50,000 characters in length. If node was compiled using the `-DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE` however, the impact of the vulnerability can be significant, as the primary limitation for the vulnerability is the default max HTTP header length in node. ## Recommendation Update to version 1.0.1 or later.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16098, https://github.com/node-modules/charset/issues/10, https://github.com/node-modules/charset/pull/11, https://github.com/node-modules/charset/commit/effda0c48c51b47a47f4cad7db0c51ee7407cc1b, https://github.com/node-modules/charset

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: charset

    Purl: pkg:npm/charset

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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