CVE-2018-13863: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

July 10, 2018 (updated October 3, 2019)

The MongoDB bson JavaScript module is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimaljs. The flaw is triggered when the DecimalfromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-13863

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