CVE-2018-13863

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.39%

js-bson vulnerable to REDoS

Published: 9/17/2018Modified: 11/8/2023

Also known as:GHSA-8462-q7x7-g2x4DEBIAN-CVE-2018-13863

Description

The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.

Affected packages (2)

Debian/node-mongodbfrom 0, < 3.1.10+~3.1.9-1
npm/bson>= 0.5.0, < 1.0.5

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH7.5	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8462-q7x7-g2x4
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13863
ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-13863
PATCHhttps://github.com/mongodb/js-bson
WEBhttps://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/commit/bd61c45157c53a1698ff23770160cf4783e9ea4a
WEBhttps://snyk.io/vuln/npm:bson:20180225