CVE-2017-16137
Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug
3.7
LOW
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.10%
Description
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.
How to fix CVE-2017-16137
To remediate CVE-2017-16137, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/node-debug—upgrade to 3.1.0-1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.6.9 or later
Is CVE-2017-16137 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 3.1.0-1
- from 0, < 2.6.9
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |