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CVE-2017-16137
The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes…
Medium5.3EPSS 2.8%
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- hackerone
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected <= 2.6.8 || >= 3.0.0 <= 3.0.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
References (5)
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [netbeans-commits] 20200429 [jira] [Created] (NETBEANS-4280) cleanup potential security breaches (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [netbeans-notifications] 20200429 [GitHub] [netbeans] BradWalker opened a new pull request #2110: [NETBEANS-4280] - cleanup potential security breaches (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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-gxpj-cx7g-858c (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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