Vulnerability: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Charset 1.0.0 and Below

CVE-2017-16098 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

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