CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-20162

MediumCVSS 4.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Elevated risk
0.99%

62th percentile - higher than 62% of all known CVEs

Summary

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in vercel ms up to 1.x. This issue affects the function parse of the file index.js. The manipulation of the argument str leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.0.0 is able to address this issue. The patch is named caae2988ba2a37765d055c4eee63d383320ee662. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217451.

Risk Assessment

A remote attacker can exploit the vulnerability to conduct a ReDoS attack, causing excessive resource consumption and potential denial of service.

Recommendation

Upgrade the vercel ms package to version 2.0.0 or later, which contains the fix.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in vercel ms up to 1.x. This issue affects the function parse of the file index.js. The manipulation of the argument str leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.0.0 is able to address this issue. The patch is named caae2988ba2a37765d055c4eee63d383320ee662. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217451.

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