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CVE-2017-16023

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Decamelize is used to convert a dash/dot/underscore/space separated string to camelCase. Decamelize 1.1.0 through 1.1.1 uses regular expressions to evaluate a string and takes unescaped separator values, which can be used to create a denial of service attack.

Affected products

• HackerOne decamelize node module: 1.1.0, 1.1.1

References

• https://github.com/sindresorhus/decamelize/issues/5
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/308
• https://github.com/sindresorhus/decamelize/issues/5
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/308

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