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CVE-2018-7651

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-03-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

index.js in the ssri module before 5.2.2 for Node.js is prone to a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in strict mode functionality via a long base64 hash string.

Affected products

• Ssri Project Ssri: before 5.2.2 — fixed in 5.2.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ssri Project Ssri 5.2.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/zkat/ssri/commit/d0ebcdc22cb5c8f47f89716d08b3518b2485d65d
• https://github.com/zkat/ssri/issues/10
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/565
• https://github.com/zkat/ssri/commit/d0ebcdc22cb5c8f47f89716d08b3518b2485d65d
• https://github.com/zkat/ssri/issues/10
• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/565

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