CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16116
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
The string module is a module that provides extra string operations. The string module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.
Affected configurations
• string project string (<= 0.2.1)
• string project string (>= 0.2.2 <= 3.3.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/536 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/536 Patch, Third Party Advisory