CVE-2017-16098

Published Jun 7, 2018 CVSS 3.0 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.6% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Analysis

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-0386 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj Regular Expression Denial of Service in charset
History

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-400

    Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
hackerone
Published
Updated
Sep 16, 2024, 6:03 PM
Reserved
Oct 29, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 7, 2018, 2:29 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:08 AM