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Regular Expression Denial Of Service in uri-js

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 24, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 22, 2024

Package

npm uri-js (npm)

Affected versions

< 3.0.0

Patched versions

3.0.0

Description

Affected versions of uri-js is susceptible to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability when user input is sent to the .parse() method.

Recommendation

Update to v3.0.0 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 4, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 24, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Apr 22, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2017-16021

GHSA ID

GHSA-333w-rxj3-f55r

Source code

No known source code
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