Improper Input Validation Affecting nodejs package, versions <8.11.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALPINE315-NODEJS-1927438
  • published17 May 2018
  • disclosed17 May 2018

Introduced: 17 May 2018

CVE-2018-7158  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-185  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.15 nodejs to version 8.11.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nodejs package and not the nodejs package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.15 relevant fixed versions and status.

The &#39;path&#39; module in the Node.js 4.x release line contains a potential regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vector. The code in question was replaced in Node.js 6.x and later so this vulnerability only impacts all versions of Node.js 4.x. The regular expression, splitPathRe, used within the &#39;path&#39; module for the various path parsing functions, including path.dirname(), path.extname() and path.parse() was structured in such a way as to allow an attacker to craft a string, that when passed through one of these functions, could take a significant amount of time to evaluate, potentially leading to a full denial of service.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1