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CVE-2016-4055

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-4055 describes a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the duration function of the moment package (versions prior to 2.11.2) for Node.js, affecting various products including those from momentjs, Oracle, and Tenable. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause high CPU consumption, leading to a denial of service, with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.11.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:momentjs:moment:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
<= 8.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:tenable:nessus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.0, <= 18.8.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:oracle:primavera_unifier:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.90%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0990 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: momentFixed in: 2.11.2
oraclepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5.7Fixed in: momentjs

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-87vv-r9j6-g5qvmedium

Regular Expression Denial of Service in moment

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2016-4055Moderate

moment.js: regular expression denial of service

Jan 26, 2016

References

lists.apache.org / thread.html/10f0f3aefd51444d1198c65f44ffdf2d78ca3359423dbc1c168c9731%40%3Cdev.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/17ff53f7999e74fbe3cc0ceb4e1c3b00b180b7c5afec8e978837bc49%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/52bafac05ad174000ea465fe275fd3cc7bd5c25535a7631c0bc9bfb2%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/54df3aeb4239b64b50b356f0ca6f986e3c4ca5b84c515dce077c7854%40%3Cuser.flink.apache.org%3E
nodesecurity.io / advisories/55
Broken LinkExploitVendor Advisory
tenable.com / security/tns-2019-02
PatchThird Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujul2018-4258247.html
PatchThird Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/95849
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry