cve/2017/CVE-2017-16115.md

### [CVE-2017-16115](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16115)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=timespan%20node%20module&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=n%2Fa&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=Denial%20of%20Service%20(CWE-400)&color=brighgreen)

### Description

The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Given 50k characters of untrusted user input it will block the event loop for around 10 seconds.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
- https://github.com/engn33r/awesome-redos-security