CVE-2018-7158

HIGH

Node.js 4.x - Denial of Service via Regular Expression in 'path' Module

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

The `'path'` module in the Node.js 4.x release line contains a potential regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vector. The code in question was replaced in Node.js 6.x and later so this vulnerability only impacts all versions of Node.js 4.x. The regular expression, `splitPathRe`, used within the `'path'` module for the various path parsing functions, including `path.dirname()`, `path.extname()` and `path.parse()` was structured in such a way as to allow an attacker to craft a string, that when passed through one of these functions, could take a significant amount of time to evaluate, potentially leading to a full denial of service.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0126
EPSS Percentile 79.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-185
Status published
Products (2)
nodejs/node.js 4.0.0 - 4.1.2
nodejs/node.js 4.2.0 - 4.9.1
Published May 17, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026