CVE-2017-16137

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2017-09-05
CWE:
CWE-20
Bugzilla:
1500705: CVE-2017-16137 nodejs-debug: Regular expression Denial of Service

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2017-16137 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

This issue affects the versions of rh-nodejs4-nodejs-debug, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debug, and rh-nodejs8-nodejs-debug as shipped with Red Hat Software Collections 3. Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 5.3
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-nodejs8-nodejs-debug Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debug Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-nodejs4-nodejs-debug Will not fix
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 nodejs-debug Will not fix
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-mbaas-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-messaging-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-supercore-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-appstore-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-ngui-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-scm-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-metrics-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-statsd-docker Not affected
Red Hat Mobile Application Platform On-Premise 4 rhmap-fh-aaa-docker Not affected

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