CVE-2017-16098

Summary

charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
HackerOnecharset node module<1.0.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: Denial of Service (CWE-400)

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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