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CVE-2017-18214 json

Regular Expression Denial of Service in moment

published 8y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-446m-mv8f-q348 , EUVD-2018-0169

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.6%
EPSS 3.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 89%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The moment module before 2.19.3 for Node.js is prone to a regular expression denial of service via a crafted date string, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4055.

Patch / fix

  • npm moment 2.19.3
  • node-moment Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.19.3+ds-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-18214

  • node-moment Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 2.11.0+ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18214

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • eap7-wildfly jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 7.4.9-4.GA_redhat_00003.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jettison jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.5.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap
  • eap7-undertow jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 2.2.22-1.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-apache-sshd jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 2.9.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-elytron-web jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.9.3-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-hal-console jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 3.3.16-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-ironjacamar jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 1.5.10-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
  • eap7-jackson-core jboss enterprise application platform 7.4 2.12.7-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:0553RHSA-2023:0552RHSA-2023:0554

  • reaper CBL-Mariner 2.0 3.1.1-10
  • ntopng Azure Linux 3.0 5.2.1-4

azure linux advisories AZL-32178AZL-41019

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

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red hat product security vex CVE-2017-18214 updated cvss 5.3

nodejs-moment: Regular expression denial of service

  • Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4 nodejs-moment
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Satellite 5 momentjs
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-hal-console 3.3.16-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el7eap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0552
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 eap7-hal-console 3.3.16-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el8eap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0553
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9 eap7-hal-console 3.3.16-1.Final_redhat_00001.1.el9eap
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0554
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.9 hal-console 3.3.16.Final-redhat-00001
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:0556
  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 7 Server eap7-jettison 1.5.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el7eap, eap7-wildfly 7.4.9-4.GA_redhat_00003.1.el7eap, eap7-apache-sshd 2.9.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-jackson-core 2.12.7-1.redhat_00003.1.el7eap, eap7-undertow 2.2.22-1.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el7eap, eap7-woodstox-core 6.4.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el7eap, +42 more Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 8 eap7-jettison 1.5.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el8eap, eap7-wildfly 7.4.9-4.GA_redhat_00003.1.el8eap, eap7-apache-sshd 2.9.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-jackson-core 2.12.7-1.redhat_00003.1.el8eap, eap7-undertow 2.2.22-1.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el8eap, eap7-woodstox-core 6.4.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el8eap, +40 more Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.4 for RHEL 9 eap7-jettison 1.5.2-1.redhat_00002.1.el9eap, eap7-wildfly 7.4.9-4.GA_redhat_00003.1.el9eap, eap7-apache-sshd 2.9.2-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap7-jackson-core 2.12.7-1.redhat_00003.1.el9eap, eap7-undertow 2.2.22-1.SP3_redhat_00001.1.el9eap, eap7-woodstox-core 6.4.0-1.redhat_00001.1.el9eap, +40 more Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4.9 pom.xml, c3 0.6.0, c3 0.7.1, d3 5.9.2, fs 2.1.2, ip 2.0.0, +1536 more Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    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

3.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 89% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/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 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm moment
<2.19.3
2.19.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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