CVE-2017-15010

25

FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15010 describes a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the tough-cookie module for Node.js, affecting versions prior to 2.3.3. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this flaw by sending a specially crafted HTTP cookie, leading to excessive CPU consumption and a denial of service. While rated as HIGH severity (CVSS 7.5), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		<= 2.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:salesforce:tough-cookie::::::node.js::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

3.28%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

87.2%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0328 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (48)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa

Product: tough-cookieFixed in: 2.3.3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: fh-system-dump-tool-0:1.0.0-5.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: fping-0:3.10-4.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: nagios-0:4.0.8-8.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: nagios-plugins-0:2.0.3-3.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: perl-Crypt-CBC-0:2.33-2.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: perl-Crypt-DES-0:2.05-20.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: perl-Net-SNMP-0:6.0.1-7.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: phantomjs-0:1.9.7-3.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: python-meld3-0:0.6.10-1.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: qstat-0:2.11-13.20080912svn311.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: radiusclient-ng-0:0.5.6-9.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: redis-0:2.8.21-2.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap-fh-openshift-templates-0:4.6.0-5.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap-mod_authnz_external-0:3.3.1-7.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: sendEmail-0:1.56-2.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: ssmtp-0:2.64-14.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: supervisor-0:3.1.3-3.el7map

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-aaa:1.1.3-4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-appstore:2.1.2-3

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-mbaas:6.0.3-2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-messaging:3.2.0-4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-metrics:3.2.0-5

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-ngui:5.19.3-1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-scm:1.1.4-2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-sdks:1.0.0-36

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-statsd:2.1.3-4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/fh-supercore:5.0.10-2

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/gitlab-shell:2.1.2-16

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/httpd:2.4-47

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/installer:1.0.0-42

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/memcached:1.4.15-32

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/millicore:7.55.0-4

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/mongodb:3.2-36

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/mysql:5.5-28

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/nagios:4.0.8-58

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/redis:2.8.21-40

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/ups-eap:1.1.4-35

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6Fixed in: rhmap46/wildcard-proxy:1.0.0-17

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-1.el6

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-2.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie-0:2.3.3-1.el7

github_advisoryvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-g7q5-pjjr-gqvphigh

Regular Expression Denial of Service in tough-cookie

redhatCVE-2017-15010Moderate

nodejs-tough-cookie: Regular expression denial of service

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2912

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:2913

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1263

Third Party Advisory

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1264

Third Party Advisory

github.com / salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/92

Issue TrackingVendor Advisory

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6VEBDTGNHVM677SLZDEHMWOP3ISMZSFT

nodesecurity.io / advisories/525

Third Party Advisory

snyk.io / vuln/npm:tough-cookie:20170905

PatchThird Party Advisory

securityfocus.com / bid/101185

Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry