js-bson vulnerable to REDoS · CVE-2018-13863 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

js-bson vulnerable to REDoS

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 17, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 5, 2023

Package

bson (npm)

Affected versions

>= 0.5.0, < 1.0.5

Patched versions

1.0.5

Description

The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 17, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Sep 5, 2023

Severity

High

7.5

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H