GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm, NuGet, Maven, RubyGems

GHSA-mhpp-875w-9cpv Denial of Service in jquery

HIGH Published 2018-01-22 Modified 2025-09-02 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2016-10707
Ecosystem
npm, NuGet, Maven, RubyGems
Packages
jquery, jQuery, org.webjars.npm:jquery, jquery-rails
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-674
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm jquery: >= 3.0.0-rc.1, < 3.0.0 → fixed in 3.0.0 • NuGet jQuery: >= 3.0.0-rc.1, < 3.0.0 → fixed in 3.0.0 • Maven org.webjars.npm:jquery: >= 3.0.0-rc1, < 3.0.0 → fixed in 3.0.0 • RubyGems jquery-rails: >= 3.0.0-rc.1, < 3.0.0 → fixed in 3.0.0

Description

Affected versions of `jquery` use a lowercasing logic on attribute names. When given a boolean attribute with a name that contains uppercase characters, `jquery` enters into an infinite recursion loop, exceeding the call stack limit, and resulting in a denial of service condition. Recommendation Update to version 3.0.0 or later.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2016-10707 jQuery 3.0.0-rc.1 is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to removing a logic that lowercased attribute names. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References