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CVE-2017-16021
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-04T19:29:01.303 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:08:39.330

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.

Affected products

garycourt — uri-js

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References

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