PT-2018-6052 · Github · Uri.Js

Dotchevo · Published 2018-06-04 · Updated 2024-02-15 · CVE-2017-16021

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: uri-js versions 2.1.1 and earlier

Description: The issue arises from a regular expression used by uri-js to validate URLs, which is vulnerable to redos. This vulnerability causes the program to hang and results in 100% CPU usage when attempting to validate a supplied URL. It affects situations where user input is passed to the parse() method.

Recommendations: For uri-js versions 2.1.1 and earlier, update to v3.0.0 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

CWE-1333

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16021

GHSA-333W-RXJ3-F55R

Affected Products

Uri.Js

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/garycourt/uri-js/issues/12 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16021 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16021 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-333w-rxj3-f55r · Vendor Advisory
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/100 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/100 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-333w-rxj3-f55r · Note