CVE-2017-16137
LOW3.7EPSS 0.10%Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug
Published: 8/9/2018Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/node-debugfrom 0, < 3.1.0-1
- npm/debugfrom 0, < 2.6.9
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW3.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References (12)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16137
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16137
- PATCHhttps://github.com/visionmedia/debug
- WEBhttps://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/4e2150207c568adb9ead8f4c4528016081c88020
- WEBhttps://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/71169065b5262f9858ac78cc0b688c84a438f290
- WEBhttps://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/b6d12fdbc63b483e5c969da33ea6adc09946b5ac
- WEBhttps://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/f53962e944a87e6ca9bb622a2a12dffc22a9bb5a
- WEBhttps://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/797
- WEBhttps://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501
- WEBhttps://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3@%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
- WEBhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63@%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E