GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-f523-2f5j-gfcg Regular Expression Denial of Service in timespan

HIGH Published 2018-08-29 Modified 2023-09-13 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-16115
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
timespan
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm timespan: <= 2.3.0 (no fix yet)

Description

Affected versions of `timespan` are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing dates. The amplification for this vulnerability is significant, with 50,000 characters resulting in the event loop being blocked for around 10 seconds. Recommendation No direct patch is available for this vulnerability. Currently, the best available solution is to use a functionally equivalent alternative package. It is also sufficient to ensure that user input is not being passed into `timespan`, or that the maximum length of such user input is drastically reduced. Limiting the input length to 150 characters should be sufficient in most cases.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-16115 The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References