High
Security advisory
A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the tough-cookie module before 2.3.3 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15010
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A ReDoS (regular expression denial of service) flaw was found in the tough-cookie module before 2.3.3 for Node.js. An attacker that is able to make an HTTP request using a specially crafted cookie may cause the application to consume an excessive amount of CPU.
osv:CVE-2017-15010
Complete source record
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