Medium severity · published Jun 7, 2018
CVE-2017-16137
The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter
5.3
CVSS
2.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)2.8% · higher than 87% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DN
debug node module · HackerOne
<= 2.6.8 || >= 3.0.0 <= 3.0.1 · source: vendor
DE
Debug · Debug Project
2.0.0 before 2.6.9; 3.0.0 before 3.1.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16137
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16137
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501
Patch
https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534