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GHSA-9cp3-fh5x-xfcj

Regular Expression Denial of Service in charset

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2017-16098

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm charset < 1.0.1 1.0.1

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Affected versions of `charset` are susceptible to a regular expression denial of service. The amplification on this vulnerability is relatively low - it takes around 2 seconds for the engine to execute on a malicious input which is 50,000 characters in length. If node was compiled using the `-DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE` however, the impact of the vulnerability can be significant, as the primary limitation for the vulnerability is the default max HTTP header length in node. ## Recommendation Update to version 1.0.1 or later.

References

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