CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-15010

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the tough-cookie module before 2.3.3 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to performance degradation of the application, which can ultimately affect service availability for users.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the tough-cookie module to version 2.3.3 or later to mitigate this vulnerability.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the tough-cookie module before 2.3.3 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS