charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k 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 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.
References
Link Resource
https://github.com/node-modules/charset/issues/10 Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/524 Third Party Advisory
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cve-icon MITRE Information

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published: 2018-04-26T00:00:00

Updated: 2018-06-07T01:57:01

Reserved: 2017-10-29T00:00:00


Link: CVE-2017-16098

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cve-icon NVD Information

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-06-07T02:29:02.113

Modified: 2019-10-09T23:24:45.347


Link: CVE-2017-16098

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