SB2018071211 - ReDoS vulnerability in UAParser.js library

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16086)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing regular expressions.A remote attacker can pass a very long UserAgent header to the application and trigger a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS).

Server-side applications that use "ua-parser-js" for parsing the browser user-agent string will be vulnerable if they call the "getOS" or "getResult" functions.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/316
• https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/commit/25e143ee7caba78c6405a57d1d06b19c1e8e2f79