FKIE_CVE-2017-16137

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-06-07 02:29 - Updated: 2026-10-15 16:17
Severity
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
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.
References
support@hackerone.comhttps://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501Third Party Advisory
support@hackerone.comhttps://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504Patch, Third Party Advisory
support@hackerone.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
support@hackerone.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
support@hackerone.comhttps://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
debug_project debug *
debug_project debug *
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          "vendor": "HackerOne",
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    },
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      "value": "El m\u00f3dulo debug es vulnerable a una denegaci\u00f3n de servicio (DoS) por expresiones regulares cuando se le pasan entradas de usuario no fiables en el formateador o. Son necesarios alrededor de 50.000 caracteres para bloquear durante 2 segundos, por lo que este es un problema de baja gravedad."
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  "lastModified": "2026-10-15T16:17:27.250",
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