Bug 1304645 (CVE-2016-4055) - CVE-2016-4055 moment.js: regular expression denial of service
Summary: CVE-2016-4055 moment.js: regular expression denial of service
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2016-4055
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1304649
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-02-04 09:23 UTC by Martin Prpič
Modified: 2021-02-17 04:23 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

Fixed In Version: moment 2.11.2
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:48:08 UTC
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Description Martin Prpič 2016-02-04 09:23:03 UTC 
moment is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when user input is passed unchecked into moment.duration() blocking the event loop for a period of time.

Upstream patch:

https://github.com/moment/moment/pull/2939

External References:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/55
Comment 1 Martin Prpič 2016-02-04 09:25:30 UTC 
Created nodejs-moment tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1304649]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2016-04-21 12:04:10 UTC 
CVE assignment:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/122
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