CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8855
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-01-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The semver package before 4.3.2 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."
Affected configurations
• nodejs node.js (<= 4.3.1)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86957 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/31 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86957 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/31 Patch, Vendor Advisory