CVE-2015-8315 in ms Package

Summary

The ms package before 0.7.1 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

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• Reservation: 11/22/2015
• Disclosure: 01/23/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-95809
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-399 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 6.8
• EPSS: 0.00855
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8315
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8315
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-8315/