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CVE-2015-8855

Published: 23/01/2017 Updated: 26/01/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 694
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

The semver package prior to 4.3.2 for Node.js allows malicious users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

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Vendor Advisories

Red Hat: CVE-2015-8855
A denial of service flaw was found in the way semver, the semantic version comparison library for Nodejs, parsed certain package versions A remote attacker could use a specially crafted version string that, when processed, would lead to excessive CPU consumption ...

References

CWE-399https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/31http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86957https://nvd.nist.govhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-8855
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