{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16137","details":"The debug module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into the o formatter. It takes around 50k characters to block for 2 seconds making this a low severity issue.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:34Z","published":"2018-06-07T02:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-16137"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16137"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/534"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16137"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"node-debug","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/node-debug@2.1.0+dfsg-2?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["2.1.0+dfsg-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"node-debug","binary_version":"2.1.0+dfsg-2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16137.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}