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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2017-16115

High
7.5/10

Summary

The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Given 50k characters of untrusted user input it will block the event loop for around 10 seconds.

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

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published