{"id":"GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp","summary":"Regular Expression Denial of Service in string package","details":"Affected versions of `string` are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when specifically crafted untrusted user input is passed into the `underscore` or `unescapeHTML` methods.\n\n\n## Recommendation\n\nThere is currently no direct patch for this vulnerability. \n\nCurrently, the best solution is to avoid passing user input to the `underscore` and `unescapeHTML` methods.\n\nAlternatively, a user provided patch is available in [Pull Request #217]( https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/pull/217/commits/eab9511e4efbc8c521e18b6cf2e8565ae50c5a16), however this patch has not been tested, nor has it been merged by the package author.","aliases":["CVE-2017-16116"],"modified":"2023-11-01T04:47:52.255937Z","published":"2018-07-24T20:16:11Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2020-06-16T21:35:57Z","nvd_published_at":null,"cwe_ids":["CWE-400"],"severity":"HIGH"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16116"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/jprichardson/string.js/issues/212"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/536"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"string","ecosystem":"npm","purl":"pkg:npm/string"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"3.3.3"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2018/07/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp/GHSA-g36h-6r4f-3mqp.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}