CVE-2017-20162 (GCVE-0-2017-20162)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-01-05 11:49 – Updated: 2026-10-15 15:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
vercel ms index.js parse redos
Summary
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Severity
4.3 (Medium)
4.3 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-15 15:55 UTC
CWE
- CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
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| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024110… |
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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