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CVE-2017-16117

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% 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

slug is a module to slugify strings, even if they contain unicode. slug is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service is specially crafted untrusted input is passed as input. About 50k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds.

Affected products

• HackerOne slug node module: through 0.9.1

References

• https://github.com/dodo/node-slug/issues/82
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/537
• https://github.com/dodo/node-slug/issues/82
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/537

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