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CVE-2015-8855
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-01-23T21:59:00.503 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:35:22.467

Summary

The semver package before 4.3.2 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

Affected products

nodejs — node.js

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References

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