Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-16098
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 55.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.5
CVSS v2 Score 5.0
References
Products affected by CVE-2017-16098
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cpe:2.3:a:charset_project:charset:0.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:charset_project:charset:0.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:charset_project:charset:0.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:charset_project:charset:1.0.0