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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLWczNmgtNnI0Zi0zbXFw

Regular Expression Denial of Service in string package

Affected versions of string are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the underscore or unescapeHTML methods.

Recommendation

There is currently no direct patch for this vulnerability.

Currently, the best solution is to avoid passing user input to the underscore and unescapeHTML methods.

Alternatively, a user provided patch is available in Pull Request #217, however this patch has not been tested, nor has it been merged by the package author.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: High
Classification: General
Published: over 6 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 7.5
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Percentage: 0.00088
EPSS Percentile: 0.3916

Identifiers: GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp, CVE-2017-16116
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16116
• https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/536

Repository: https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js
Blast Radius: 31.5

Affected Packages