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 |
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https://github.com/node-modules/charset/issues/10 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/524 | Third Party Advisory |
History
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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
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-06-07T02:29:02.113
Modified: 2019-10-09T23:24:45.347
Link: CVE-2017-16098
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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CWE