CVE-2017-16137 (GCVE-0-2017-16137)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-06-07 02:00
Modified
2026-10-15 15:54
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HackerOne debug node module Version: <= 2.6.8 || >= 3.0.0 <= 3.0.1
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