Bug 1448380 (CVE-2017-18077)

Summary:	CVE-2017-18077 nodejs-brace-expansion: Regular expression denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	ahardin, avibelli, bdettelb, bleanhar, ccoleman, cmacedo, dedgar, dffrench, dmcphers, drusso, gsterlin, hhorak, jbalunas, jgoulding, jkeck, jmadigan, joelsmith, jokerman, jorton, jshepherd, jsmith.fedora, kseifried, lgriffin, mchappel, ngough, nodejs-sig, pwright, rrajasek, tdawson, thrcka, tkirby, tomckay, trepel, zsvetlik
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nodejs-brace-expansion 1.1.7	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Bug Depends On:	1448381, 1470126, 1598176, 1598177
Bug Blocks:	1448382

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-05 10:13:21 UTC

A Regular expression denial-of-service vulnerability was found in nodejs-brace-expansion. Running a specially crafted command would cause the application to hang for long periods of time.

References:

https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:brace-expansion:20170302

Upstream bug:

https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/issues/33

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/juliangruber/brace-expansion/pull/35/commits/b13381281cead487cbdbfd6a69fb097ea5e456c3

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-05 10:14:02 UTC

Created nodejs-brace-expansion tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1448381]

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2020-06-19 03:44:09 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 EUS
  Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 EUS

Via RHSA-2020:2625 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2625

Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-06-19 05:20:21 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2017-18077

Comment 11 Jason Shepherd 2021-05-07 01:49:14 UTC

Statement:

Red Hat Quay include brace-explansion as a build time dependency. It's not used at runtime and hence has a reduce impact of low.