CVE-2017-16086: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 7, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

ua-parser is vulnerable to a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) attack when given a specially crafted UserAgent header.

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16086

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