ID:2641 - Exploit for Resource exhaustion in UAParser.js - CVE-2017-16086

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Vulnerability description

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.

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