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CVE-2017-16098
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-06-07T02:29:02.113 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:08:47.603

Summary

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.

Affected products

charset_project — charset

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References

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