Advisories for Npm/Charset package

2018

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

charset is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

2017

Regular Expression Denial of Service

charset is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is kb so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.