{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-gxpj-cx7g-858c",
  "modified": "2024-03-25T19:01:23Z",
  "published": "2018-08-09T20:18:07Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-16137"
  ],
  "summary": "Regular Expression Denial of Service in debug",
  "details": "Affected versions of `debug` are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the `o` formatter. \n\nAs it takes 50,000 characters to block the event loop for 2 seconds, this issue is a low severity issue.\n\nThis was later re-introduced in version v3.2.0, and then repatched in versions 3.2.7 and 4.3.1.\n\n## Recommendation\n\nVersion 2.x.x: Update to version 2.6.9 or later.\nVersion 3.1.x: Update to version 3.1.0 or later.\nVersion 3.2.x: Update to version 3.2.7 or later.\nVersion 4.x.x: Update to version 4.3.1 or later.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "debug"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "2.6.9"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "debug"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.1.0"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "debug"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.2.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.2.7"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "npm",
        "name": "debug"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
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            {
              "introduced": "4.0.0"
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              "fixed": "4.3.1"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16137"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/debug-js/debug/issues/797"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/501"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/pull/504"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/4e2150207c568adb9ead8f4c4528016081c88020"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/71169065b5262f9858ac78cc0b688c84a438f290"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/b6d12fdbc63b483e5c969da33ea6adc09946b5ac"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/debug-js/debug/commit/f53962e944a87e6ca9bb622a2a12dffc22a9bb5a"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/visionmedia/debug"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8ba4c628fba7181af58817d452119481adce4ba92e889c643e4c7dd3@%3Ccommits.netbeans.apache.org%3E"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb5ac16fad337d1f3bb7079549f97d8166d0ef3082629417c39f12d63@%3Cnotifications.netbeans.apache.org%3E"
    }
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  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "severity": "LOW",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2020-06-16T21:38:18Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null
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}