GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-pmg9-p9r2-6q87 ReDoS via long UserAgent header in ua-parser

HIGH Published 2018-07-24 Modified 2021-01-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-16086
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
ua-parser
Severity
High
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm ua-parser: <= 0.3.5 (no fix yet)

Description

Affected versions of `ua-parser` are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when given a specially crafted `User-Agent` header. Recommendation No patch is currently available for this vulnerability. The best mitigation is currently to avoid using this package, using a different, functionally equivalent package such as useragent.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-16086 ua-parser is a port of Browserscope's user agent parser. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References