Incorrect Regular Expression in node-ecstatic - CVE-2016-10703
Published: March 26, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU87792
CSH Severity: Medium
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-2016-10703
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 can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Affected software
node-ecstatic
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace
How to mitigate CVE-2016-10703
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..
node-ecstatic - update to 2.0.0
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace - update to 2.0.94
IBM Planning Analytics Workspace - update to 2.0.94