PT-2018-6127 · Node · Charset

Cristianstaicu · Published 2018-06-07 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-16098

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: charset versions 1.0.0 and below

Description: The issue concerns a regular expression denial of service. It is noted that an input of around 50,000 characters is required to cause a slow down of approximately 2 seconds. The impact of this issue is relatively low due to the default header max length in node being 80kb, unless node was compiled with a different header size limit using the -DHTTP MAX HEADER SIZE option.

Recommendations: Update to version 1.0.1 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16098

GHSA-9CP3-FH5X-XFCJ

Affected Products

Charset

References · 8

• 🔥 https://github.com/node-modules/charset/issues/10 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16098 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16098 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/node-modules/charset/commit/effda0c48c51b47a47f4cad7db0c51ee7407cc1b · Note
• https://github.com/node-modules/charset · Note
• https://github.com/node-modules/charset/pull/11 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/524 · Note