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CVE-2017-16137

N/A
Published: June 7, 2018 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: October 15, 2026 at 04:17 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorDebug

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Debug· Debug Projectnpm
95%
2.0.0 ≤ v < 2.6.93.0.0 ≤ v < 3.1.0
Affected range stops below 2.6.9, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 3.1.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (5)

x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3%40%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63%40%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E
x_refsource_MISCThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

5MEDIUM[email protected]
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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