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CVE-2017-20162

MEDIUM
4.3CVSS
Published: 2023-01-05
Updated: 2025-11-03
AI Analysis

Description

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in vercel ms up to 1.x. This issue affects the function parse of the file index.js. The manipulation of the argument str leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 2.0.0 is able to address this issue. The patch is named caae2988ba2a37765d055c4eee63d383320ee662. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217451.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
low
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
none
Integrity
none
Availability
low
Weaknesses
CWE-1333CWE-1333

Metadata

Primary Vendor
VERCEL
Published
1/5/2023
Last Modified
11/3/2025
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

vercel : ms

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