CVE-2017-16115: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated February 20, 2020)

The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Given k characters of untrusted user input it will block the event loop for around seconds.

References

github.com/indexzero/TimeSpan.js/issues/10
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16115

Code Behaviors & Features

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