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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2017-16021 EUVD-2018-0211GHSA-333w-rxj3-f55r

Regular Expression Denial Of Service in uri-js

Published Jun 4, 2018 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by hackerone

Description

uri-js is a module that tries to fully implement RFC 3986. One of these features is validating whether or not a supplied URL is valid or not. To do this, uri-js uses a regular expression, This regular expression is vulnerable to redos. This causes the program to hang and the CPU to idle at 100% usage while uri-js is trying to validate if the supplied URL is valid or not. To check if you're vulnerable, look for a call to `require("uri-js").parse()` where a user is able to send their own input. This affects uri-js 2.1.1 and earlier.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HackerOne uri-js node module <=2.1.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm uri-js < 3.0.0 3.0.0 GHSA-333w-rxj3-f55r

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