Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Regular Expression Denial of Service in semver Versions 4.3.1 and earlier of semver are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when extremely long version strings are parsed.

Recommendation

Update to version 4.3.2 or later

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Component	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 14	node-semver	>=0 <5.3.0-1	5.3.0-1
debian 12	node-semver	>=0 <5.3.0-1	5.3.0-1
debian 13	node-semver	>=0 <5.3.0-1	5.3.0-1
debian 11	node-semver	>=0 <5.3.0-1	5.3.0-1
npm	semver	>=1.0.4 <4.3.2	4.3.2

Aliases

1. CVE-2015-88552. NVD-2015-88553. OSV-DEBIAN-2015-88554. OSV-2015-88555. GHSA-x6fg-f45m-jf5q6. GCVE-2015-88557. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2015-8855

References

1. https://github.com/github/advisory-database/pull/71022. https://github.com/npm/node-semver/commit/5c4c9f6e26c7052a42b5ced2a7481c5c9b4363a03. https://github.com/npm/node-semver/commit/c80180d8341a8ada0236815c29a2be59864afd704. https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/315. https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Regular_expression_Denial_of_Service_-_ReDoS6. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/117. http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86957

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