PT-2018-6144 · Slug · Slug

Cristianstaicu · Published 2018-06-07 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-16117

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: slug versions prior to 0.9.2

Description: The issue concerns a regular expression denial of service in the slug module when specially crafted untrusted input is passed. This can cause the event loop to block for 2 seconds with approximately 50,000 characters.

Recommendations: Update to version 0.9.2 or later.

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16117

GHSA-JXQQ-CQM6-PFQ9

Affected Products

Slug

References · 7

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16117 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16117 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/dodo/node-slug/issues/82 · Note
• https://npmjs.com/advisories/537 · Note
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9 · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/537 · Note