CVE-2017-16098

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Jun 7, 2018
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2017-16098: High severity, CVSS 7.5 | Vulnix