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CVE-2017-16115

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

The timespan module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Given 50k characters of untrusted user input it will block the event loop for around 10 seconds.

Affected products

• HackerOne timespan node module: all versions

References

• https://github.com/indexzero/TimeSpan.js/issues/10
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/533
• https://github.com/indexzero/TimeSpan.js/issues/10
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/533

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