CVE-2017-16099: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

The no-case module is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. When malicious untrusted user input is passed into no-case, it can block the event loop causing a denial of service condition.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16099

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