Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2017-16137

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16137 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting the debug_project debug module, where untrusted user input in the 'o' formatter can cause a denial of service. This is a low-severity issue with a CVSS score of 5.3, as it requires approximately 50,000 characters to block the system for only two seconds. There is no evidence of active exploitation, no known exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 2.0.0, < 2.6.9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debug_project:debug:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*
>= 3.0.0, < 3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:debug_project:debug:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

5.3MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0280 is in the 78th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (10)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: debugFixed in: 2.6.9
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: debugFixed in: 3.1.0
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: debugFixed in: 3.2.7
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: debugFixed in: 4.3.1
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8:v3.6.0-62
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3Fixed in: nodejs-debug
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-debug
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-debug
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-nodejs8-nodejs-debug

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-gxpj-cx7g-858clow

Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug

Aug 9, 2018
redhatCVE-2017-16137Moderate

nodejs-debug: Regular expression Denial of Service

Sep 5, 2017

References

github.com / visionmedia/debug/issues/501
Third Party Advisory
github.com / visionmedia/debug/pull/504
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
nodesecurity.io / advisories/534
Third Party Advisory