CVE-2017-16098: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

charset is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16098

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