Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug
GHSA-gxpj-cx7g-858c · CVE-2017-16137
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Description
Affected versions of debug are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter.
As it takes 50,000 characters to block the event loop for 2 seconds, this issue is a low severity issue.
This was later re-introduced in version v3.2.0, and then repatched in versions 3.2.7 and 4.3.1.
Recommendation
Version 2.x.x: Update to version 2.6.9 or later.
Version 3.1.x: Update to version 3.1.0 or later.
Version 3.2.x: Update to version 3.2.7 or later.
Version 4.x.x: Update to version 4.3.1 or later.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16137
- WEB https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/797
- WEB https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501
- WEB https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504
- WEB https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/4e2150207c568adb9ead8f4c4528016081c88020
- WEB https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/71169065b5262f9858ac78cc0b688c84a438f290
- WEB https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/b6d12fdbc63b483e5c969da33ea6adc09946b5ac
- WEB https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/f53962e944a87e6ca9bb622a2a12dffc22a9bb5a
- PACKAGE https://github.com/visionmedia/debug
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3@%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- WEB https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63@%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
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