GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm

GHSA-x6wp-rfwh-hcx7 Regular Expression Denial of Service in content

HIGH Published 2018-07-24 Modified 2023-09-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2017-16111
Ecosystem
npm
Packages
content
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
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• npm content: < 3.0.7 → fixed in 3.0.7

Description

Affected versions of `content` are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing malicious `Content-Type` and `Content-Disposition` headers. Recommendation Update to version 3.0.6 or later.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2017-16111 The content module is a module to parse HTTP Content-* headers. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References