Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8855

Title: Nodejs Node.Js Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8855.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Jan 23, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.09%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8855: The semver package before 4.3.2 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long version string, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

Impacted Vendors

nodejs 1

joyent 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86957 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/31 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/04/20/11 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/86957 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/31

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns