CVE-2017-16098 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting charset versions 1.0.0 and below. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service by providing specially crafted input of approximately 50,000 characters, leading to a 2-second slowdown. Rated 7.5 HIGH on CVSS, the attack vector is network-based with low complexity, and its primary impact is availability, though limited by default Node.js header size constraints. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:charset_project:charset:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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