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CVE-2017-16030
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-04T19:29:01.677 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:08:41.183

Summary

Useragent is used to parse useragent headers. It uses several regular expressions to accomplish this. An attacker could edit their own headers, creating an arbitrarily long useragent string, causing the event loop and server to block. This affects Useragent 2.1.12 and earlier.

Affected products

useragent_project — useragent

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References

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