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Resource Management Errors

CVE-2015-8858

High
7.5/10

Summary

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability was discovered in uglify-js. Malicious inputs can be passed into the parse() method.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors

Resource management errors is not a weakness in and of itself, rather it is a category of weaknesses related to improper management of system resources. If not addressed, the weaknesses in this category can lead to unexpected software behavior, loss of access, file modification, sensitive information disclosure, system crash, denial of service, and code execution.

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  • Published