Security advisory

{
  "id": "74c145dfcab0ef031bf60fd37c9f8934b8c1c7304e0563e578efbfff94af802f",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16117",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-16117",
    "summary": "slug is a module to slugify strings, even if they contain unicode. slug is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service is specially crafted untrusted input is passed as input. About 50k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-16117",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-16117",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-16117",
        "GHSA-jxqq-cqm6-pfq9"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/dodo/node-slug",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "ff7426b2fdc084df4ac1ba058ad1ddda62ea2030"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:slug_project:slug:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "0.9.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "0.9.1",
            "0.9.0",
            "0.8.0",
            "0.7.1",
            "0.7.0",
            "0.6.0",
            "0.5.0",
            "0.4.2",
            "0.4.1",
            "0.4.0",
            "0.3.4",
            "0.3.3",
            "0.3.2",
            "0.3.1",
            "0.3.0",
            "0.2.2",
            "0.2.1",
            "0.2.0",
            "0.1.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16117.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:46.989420531Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/dodo/node-slug/issues/82",
        "https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/537"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-16117",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379702,
  "published_at": "2018-06-07T02:29:02.91+00:00"
}