CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-8855

Published: Jan 23, 2017 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
4.3 MODERATE
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

The semver package before 4.3.2 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Node.js Nodejs * 4.3.1 (including)
Node-semver Ubuntu artful *
Node-semver Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Node-semver Ubuntu precise *
Node-semver Ubuntu trusty *
Node-semver Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Node-semver Ubuntu upstream *
Node-semver Ubuntu wily *
Node-semver Ubuntu xenial *
Node-semver Ubuntu yakkety *
Node-semver Ubuntu zesty *

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