CVE-2017-16098 – charset

Package

Manager: npm
Name: charset
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <1.0.1

Severity

Level: High

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.00328 pctl0.55046

Details

Regular Expression Denial of Service in charset 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.

Metadata

Created: 2018-08-09T20:55:46Z
Modified: 2023-03-31T15:44:11Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/08/GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj/GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-400"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj
Finding: F002
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