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GHSA-9CP3-FH5X-XFCJ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2018-08-09 20:55 – Updated: 2023-03-31 15:44

Summary

Regular Expression Denial of Service in charset

Details

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.

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

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  "id": "GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj",
  "modified": "2023-03-31T15:44:11Z",
  "published": "2018-08-09T20:55:46Z",
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CVE-2017-16098 (GCVE-0-2017-16098)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 18:03

Summary

charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)

Assigner

hackerone CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 60/100 over 214 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/524	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/node-modules/charset/issues/10	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	charset node module	Affected: <1.0.0

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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