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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2018-7651 EUVD-2018-0168GHSA-325j-24f4-qv5x

Regular Expression Denial of Service in ssri

Published Mar 4, 2018 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

index.js in the ssri module before 5.2.2 for Node.js is prone to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in strict mode functionality via a long base64 hash string.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-ssri 5.2.4-1 —
Debian 13 node-ssri 5.2.4-1 —
Debian 12 node-ssri 5.2.4-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS node-ssri No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm ssri < 5.2.2 5.2.2 GHSA-325j-24f4-qv5x

References