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Medium 5.3Published Jun 7, 2018
CVE-2017-16137The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter.
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The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.
- CVSS
- 5.3 MEDIUM (v3.0, NVD)CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-400
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- hackerone
- NVD analysis
- Modified
- Record last updated
- Oct 15, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 15, 2026
Affected products
HackerOne debug node module hackerone:debug_node_module (from the name) | through 2.6.8 || >= 3.0.0 <= 3.0.1 | CNA record |
debug_project debug debug_project:debug | from 2.0.0 before 2.6.9; from 3.0.0 before 3.1.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504x-refsource-misc, patch, third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501x-refsource-misc, third-party-advisory
- https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534x-refsource-misc, third-party-advisory
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3Emailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3Emailing-list, x-refsource-mlist
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