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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-16113 json

Regular Expression Denial of Service in parsejson

published 2018-06-07 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-q75g-2496-mxpp , EUVD-2018-0311

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The parsejson module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when untrusted user input is passed into it to be parsed.

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-2017-16113 updated cvss 7.5

nodejs-parsejson: Regular Denial of Service

  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8 Red Hat Virtualization 4 ovirt-engine-dashboard
    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

1.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/get/parsejson/issues/4 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm parsejson
<=0.0.3
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • HackerOne parsejson node module

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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