CVE-2017-16137: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16137

Code Behaviors & Features

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