ghsa-qhv9-728r-6jqg
Vulnerability from github
Published
2018-10-10 18:57
Modified
2021-09-16 19:58
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
ReDoS via long string of semicolons in tough-cookie
Details

Affected versions of tough-cookie may be vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when long strings of semicolons exist in the Set-Cookie header.

Recommendation

Update to version 2.3.0 or later.

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{
   affected: [
      {
         package: {
            ecosystem: "npm",
            name: "tough-cookie",
         },
         ranges: [
            {
               events: [
                  {
                     introduced: "0",
                  },
                  {
                     fixed: "2.3.0",
                  },
               ],
               type: "ECOSYSTEM",
            },
         ],
      },
   ],
   aliases: [
      "CVE-2016-1000232",
   ],
   database_specific: {
      cwe_ids: [
         "CWE-1333",
      ],
      github_reviewed: true,
      github_reviewed_at: "2020-06-16T21:52:05Z",
      nvd_published_at: null,
      severity: "MODERATE",
   },
   details: "Affected versions of `tough-cookie` may be vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when long strings of semicolons exist in the `Set-Cookie` header.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nUpdate to version 2.3.0 or later.",
   id: "GHSA-qhv9-728r-6jqg",
   modified: "2021-09-16T19:58:53Z",
   published: "2018-10-10T18:57:02Z",
   references: [
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1000232",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/615627206357d997d5e6ff9da158997de05235ae",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie/commit/e4fc2e0f9ee1b7a818d68f0ac7ea696f377b1534",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2101",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2912",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2016-1000232",
      },
      {
         type: "ADVISORY",
         url: "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qhv9-728r-6jqg",
      },
      {
         type: "PACKAGE",
         url: "https://github.com/salesforce/tough-cookie",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.ibm.com/blogs/psirt/ibm-security-bulletin-ibm-api-connect-is-affected-by-node-js-tough-cookie-module-vulnerability-to-a-denial-of-service-cve-2016-1000232",
      },
      {
         type: "WEB",
         url: "https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/130",
      },
   ],
   schema_version: "1.4.0",
   severity: [
      {
         score: "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
         type: "CVSS_V3",
      },
   ],
   summary: "ReDoS via long string of semicolons in tough-cookie",
}


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