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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2017-15010 json

Regular Expression Denial of Service in tough-cookie

published 2017-10-03 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-g7q5-pjjr-gqvp , EUVD-2018-0269

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.3%
EPSS 3.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the tough-cookie module before 2.3.3 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.

Patch / fix

  • npm tough-cookie 2.3.3
  • node-tough-cookie Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.3.4+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15010

  • fping mobile application platform 4.6 3.10-4.el7map
  • qstat mobile application platform 4.6 2.11-13.20080912svn311.el7map
  • redis mobile application platform 4.6 2.8.21-2.el7map
  • ssmtp mobile application platform 4.6 2.64-14.el7map
  • nagios mobile application platform 4.6 4.0.8-8.el7map
  • phantomjs mobile application platform 4.6 1.9.7-3.el7map
  • sendEmail mobile application platform 4.6 1.56-2.el7
  • supervisor mobile application platform 4.6 3.1.3-3.el7map

red hat advisories RHSA-2018:1263RHSA-2017:2913RHSA-2017:2912

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-2017-15010 updated cvss 5.3

nodejs-tough-cookie: Regular expression denial of service

  • Red Hat Mobile Application Platform 4.6 fping 3.10-4.el7map, rhmap46/httpd 2.4-47, rhmap46/mysql 5.5-28, sendEmail 1.56-2.el7, ssmtp 2.64-14.el7map, nagios 4.0.8-8.el7map, +89 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1263
  • Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 6) rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-2.el6, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-1.el6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-2.el7, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 6.7) rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-2.el6, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-1.el6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.3) rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-2.el7, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-1.el7 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 6) rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-2.el6, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-1.el6 Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) rh-nodejs4-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-2.el7, rh-nodejs6-nodejs-tough-cookie 2.3.3-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:2912
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 nodejs-tough-cookie 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

3.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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 tough-cookie
<2.3.3
2.3.3

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.