Affected versions of jquery use a lowercasing logic on attribute names. When given a boolean attribute with a name that contains uppercase characters, jquery enters into an infinite recursion loop, exceeding the call stack limit, and resulting in a denial of service condition.

Recommendation

Update to version 3.0.0 or later.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-10707
• jquery/jquery#3133
• GHSA-mhpp-875w-9cpv
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/330
• jquery/jquery#3134
• https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:jquery:20160529
• jquery/jquery#3133 (comment)
• https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/jquery-rails/CVE-2016-10707.yml