Resource Exhaustion Affecting rh-nodejs4-nodejs-devel package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.41% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-RHNODEJS4NODEJSDEVEL-12238135
  • published29 Aug 2025
  • disclosed8 Mar 2018

Introduced: 8 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-7158  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 rh-nodejs4-nodejs-devel.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-nodejs4-nodejs-devel package and not the rh-nodejs4-nodejs-devel package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

The 'path' 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 'path' 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 Base Scores

version 3.1