HIGH7.5
GHSA-g7q5-pjjr-gqvp
Regular Expression Denial of Service in tough-cookie
Quick fix
GHSA-g7q5-pjjr-gqvp — tough-cookie: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install tough-cookie@2.3.3Details
Affected versions of `tough-cookie` are susceptible to a regular expression denial of service.
The amplification on this vulnerability is relatively low - it takes around 2 seconds for the engine to execute on a malicious input which is 50,000 characters in length.
If node was compiled using the `-DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE` however, the impact of the vulnerability can be significant, as the primary limitation for the vulnerability is the default max HTTP header length in node.
## Recommendation
Update to version 2.3.3 or later.
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Affected packages
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15010[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/92[WEB]
- https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/f1ed420a6a92ea7a5418df6e39e676556bc0c71d[WEB]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2912[WEB]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2913[WEB]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1263[WEB]
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1264[WEB]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g7q5-pjjr-gqvp[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie[PACKAGE]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6VEBDTGNHVM677SLZDEHMWOP3ISMZSFT[WEB]
- https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:tough-cookie:20170905[WEB]
- https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/525[WEB]
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101185[WEB]