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CVE-2017-16023

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-16023 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Decamelize versions 1.1.0 through 1.1.1. The flaw stems from the library's use of regular expressions with unescaped separator values, allowing a specially crafted input string to trigger excessive resource consumption. This vulnerability is rated as High severity (CVSS 7.5), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a complete 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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:decamelize_project:decamelize:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:decamelize_project:decamelize:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.46%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0146 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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 (1)

npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: decamelizeFixed in: 1.1.2

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-q5c4-39f5-m68jhigh

Regular Expression Denial of Service in decamelize

Jul 24, 2018
redhatCVE-2017-16023Moderate

nodejs-decamelize: Regular expression Denial-of-Service

Dec 23, 2015

References

github.com / sindresorhus/decamelize/issues/5
Third Party Advisory
nodesecurity.io / advisories/308
Third Party Advisory