Incorrect Regular Expression in Tough-cookie - CVE-2017-15010

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Incorrect Regular Expression in Tough-cookie - CVE-2017-15010

Published: February 5, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU103635
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-15010
CWE-ID: CWE-185
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.


Affected software

Tough-cookie
Fedora
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package)
rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package)
nodejs-tough-cookie
IBM Cognos Analytics

How to mitigate CVE-2017-15010

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

Tough-cookie - update to 2.3.3
rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.3.3-1.el6, 2.3.3-1.el7
rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 2.3.3-2.el6, 2.3.3-2.el7
nodejs-tough-cookie - update to 2.3.4-1.fc30
IBM Cognos Analytics - addressed in versions 11.2.4 IF5, 12.0.4 IF2

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