Regular Expression Denial of Service in forwarded · CVE-2017-16118 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Regular Expression Denial of Service in forwarded

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jul 24, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 11, 2023

Package

forwarded (npm)

Affected versions

< 0.1.2

Patched versions

0.1.2

Description

Affected versions of forwarded are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when parsing specially crafted user input.

Recommendation

Update to version 0.1.2 or later

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jul 24, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Sep 11, 2023

Severity

High

7.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H