Denial of service in jQuery - CVE-2016-10707

Vulnerability identifier: #VU7281

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 2.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-10707

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

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

The vulnerability exists due to infinite loop when processing attributes. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and trigger the infinite loop within jQuery code.

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• https://github.com/jquery/jquery/issues/3133

• Infinite loop in jQuery
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