Description
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)."
Published: 2017-01-23
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0328 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)."
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-x6fg-f45m-jf5q Regular Expression Denial of Service in semver
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4776-1 semver vulnerability
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:29:22.086Z

Reserved: 2016-04-20T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8855

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-01-23T21:59:00.503

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-8855

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-04-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8855 - Bugzilla

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