CVE-2017-16138: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

The mime module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when a mime lookup is performed on untrusted user input.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16138

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