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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2016-2537 json

Regular Expression Denial of Service in is-my-json-valid

published 2016-02-23 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-f522-ffg8-j8r6 , EUVD-2017-0222

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The is-my-json-valid package before 2.12.4 for Node.js has an incorrect exports['utc-millisec'] regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked event loop) via a crafted string.

Patch / fix

  • npm is-my-json-valid 2.12.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-2537 updated cvss 4.3

nodejs-is-my-json-valid: Regular expression DoS using utc-millisec format

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm is-my-json-valid
<2.12.4
2.12.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

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