CVE-2018-3738 describes a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability in the protobufjs library, affecting protobufjs_project protobufjs. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.5) can be triggered when parsing specially crafted, invalid .proto files, leading to a denial of service (availability impact) on the affected system. The attack requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there any publicly available exploit tools like Metasploit or ExploitDB entries, and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 6.8.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:protobufjs_project:protobufjs:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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