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CVE

CVE-2017-16137

Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug
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CVE

CVE-2017-16137

Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug

Affected versions of debug are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. 

As it takes 50,000 characters to block the event loop for 2 seconds, this issue is a low severity issue.

This was later re-introduced in version v3.2.0, and then repatched in versions 3.2.7 and 4.3.1.

Recommendation

Version 2.x.x: Update to version 2.6.9 or later.

Version 3.1.x: Update to version 3.1.0 or later.

Version 3.2.x: Update to version 3.2.7 or later.

Version 4.x.x: Update to version 4.3.1 or later.

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CVSS Version

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References

Severity

3.7

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
3.7
EPSS Probability
0.00097%
EPSS Percentile
0.27327%
Introduced Version
4.0.0
Fix Available
4.3.1

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