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GHSA-PMG9-P9R2-6Q87

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2018-07-24 19:46 – Updated: 2021-01-08 18:20

Summary

ReDoS via long UserAgent header in ua-parser

Details

Affected versions of ua-parser are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when given a specially crafted User-Agent header.

Recommendation

No patch is currently available for this vulnerability.

The best mitigation is currently to avoid using this package, using a different, functionally equivalent package such as useragent.

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  "modified": "2021-01-08T18:20:33Z",
  "published": "2018-07-24T19:46:37Z",
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CVE-2017-16086 (GCVE-0-2017-16086)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-07 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:31

Summary

ua-parser is a port of Browserscope's user agent parser. ua-parser is vulnerable to a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) attack when given a specially crafted UserAgent header.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

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

Assigner

hackerone CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard D 59/100 over 213 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/316	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HackerOne	ua-parser node module	Affected: All versions

Date Public

2018-04-26 00:00

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