CVE-2017-1000189 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

nodejs ejs version older than 2.5.5 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service due to weak input validation in the ejs.renderFile()

Published: 2017-11-17

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:ejs:ejs:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2018-0173	nodejs ejs version older than 2.5.5 is vulnerable to a denial-of-service due to weak input validation in the ejs.renderFile()
Github GHSA	GHSA-6x77-rpqf-j6mw	ejs vulnerable to DoS due to weak input validation

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00913.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101893
https://github.com/mde/ejs/commit/49264e0037e313a0a3e033450b5c184112516d8f
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000189
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:ejs:20161130-1
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000189

History

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Subscriptions

Ejs Ejs

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-11-17T03:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:53:07.124Z

Reserved: 2017-11-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-1000189

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-11-17T03:29:00.300

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

Link: CVE-2017-1000189

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2016-12-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-1000189 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

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