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CVE-2015-8858

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The uglify-js package before 2.6.0 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input in a parse call, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

Affected products

• Uglifyjs Project Uglifyjs: through 2.5.0

References

• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96409
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/48
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96409
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/48

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