PT-2018-6143 · String · String

Cristianstaicu · Published 2018-06-07 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-16116

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: string (affected versions not specified)

Description: The issue concerns a regular expression denial of service that occurs when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods of the string module.

Recommendations: Avoid passing user input to the underscore and unescapeHTML methods as a temporary workaround. Consider applying the user-provided patch available, although it has not been tested or merged by the package author, as an alternative solution.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16116

GHSA-G36H-6R4F-3MQP

Affected Products

String

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212 · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16116 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp · Vendor Advisory
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/536 · Patch
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/536 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp · Note