MidnightBSD

Advisories for charset_project

CVE-2017-16098 MEDIUM

charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

CVSS 2.0

Severity: MEDIUM

Problem Type: CWE-400,CWE-400,

Products Affected

Vendor Product Version
charset_project charset *