CVE-2017-16117 – slug

Package

Manager: npm
Name: slug
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <0.9.2

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:P/RL:U/RC:R

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: 0.00362 pctl0.57512

Details

Regular Expression Denial of Service in slug Affected versions of `slug` are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing untrusted user input. The issue is low severity, as it takes 50,000 characters to cause the event loop to block for 2 seconds, About 50k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds. ## Recommendation Update to version 0.9.2 or later.

Metadata

Created: 2018-07-24T20:06:45Z
Modified: 2020-08-31T18:26:54Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/07/GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9/GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-400"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9
Finding: F002
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