ZeroHour

CVE-2017-16098

PoC
CVSS 3.0
7.5 high
EPSS
2%p75
Published
()
Modified
Description

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.

Vendors
charset project
Products
charset
Weakness
CWE-400
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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