Useragent is used to parse useragent headers. It uses several regular expressions to accomplish this. An attacker could edit their own headers, creating an arbitrarily long useragent string, causing the event loop and server to block. This affects Useragent 2.1.12 and earlier.
References
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https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/312 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: hackerone
Published: 2018-04-26T00:00:00
Updated: 2018-06-04T18:57:01
Reserved: 2017-10-29T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-16030
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-06-04T19:29:01.677
Modified: 2019-10-09T23:24:38.110
Link: CVE-2017-16030
JSON object: View
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