CVE-2017-16116 describes a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the 'string' module, affecting the 'underscore' and 'unescapeHTML' methods when processing specially crafted untrusted user input. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, leading to a high impact on availability (denial of service). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:string_project:string:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* | ||
>= 0.2.2, <= 3.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:string_project:string:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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