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CVE-2017-16021GHSA-333W-RXJ3-F55R

uri-js is a module that tries to fully implement RFC 3986.

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.0.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

uri-js is a module that tries to fully implement RFC 3986. One of these features is validating whether or not a supplied URL is valid or not. To do this, uri-js uses a regular expression, This regular expression is vulnerable to redos. This causes the program to hang and the CPU to idle at 100% usage while uri-js is trying to validate if the supplied URL is valid or not. To check if you're vulnerable, look for a call to `require("uri-js").parse()` where a user is able to send their own input. This affects uri-js 2.1.1 and earlier.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • HackerOne uri-js node module

    through 2.1.1

  • uri-jsnpm

    fixed in 3.0.0

References 2

GitHub · garycourt/uri-js

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