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CVE-2017-16113
The parsejson module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into it to be parsed.
High7.5EPSS 1.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- hackerone
Description
The parsejson module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into it to be parsed.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
HackerOne · parsejson node module
- affected <=0.0.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmparsejsonGHSA-q75g-2496-mxpp (opens in a new tab)
References (2)
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/528 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/get/parsejson/issues/4 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-q75g-2496-mxpp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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