cve/2017/CVE-2017-16098.md

CVE-2017-16098

Description

charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/engn33r/awesome-redos-security
• https://github.com/ossf-cve-benchmark/CVE-2017-16098