PT-2018-6165 · Mime · Mime

Published 2018-06-07 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2017-16138

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: mime versions prior to 1.4.1 mime versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2

Description: The issue concerns a regular expression denial of service that occurs when a mime lookup is performed on untrusted user input.

Recommendations: For mime versions prior to 1.4.1, update to version 1.4.1 or later. For mime versions 2.0.1, 2.0.2, update to version 2.0.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-16138

GHSA-WRVR-8MPX-R7PP

Affected Products

Mime

References · 15

• 🔥 https://github.com/broofa/node-mime/issues/167 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16138 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-16138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16138 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16138 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wrvr-8mpx-r7pp · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/broofa/node-mime/commit/1df903fdeb9ae7eaa048795b8d580ce2c98f40b0 · Note
• https://github.com/broofa/node-mime/commit/855d0c4b8b22e4a80b9401a81f2872058eae274d · Note
• https://github.com/broofa/mime/commit/855d0c4b8b22e4a80b9401a81f2872058eae274d · Note
• https://github.com/broofa/mime/commit/1df903fdeb9ae7eaa048795b8d580ce2c98f40b0 · Note
• https://github.com/broofa/mime · Note
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/535 · Note