Description

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the tough-cookie module before 2.3.3 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Remediation

References

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:tough-cookie:20170905

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/525

https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/issues/92

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101185

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2913

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2912

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1263

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1264

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6VEBDTGNHVM677SLZDEHMWOP3ISMZSFT/

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Severity

High

Classification

CWE-400 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Tags

Patch Third Party Advisory Issue Tracking Vendor Advisory VDB Entry