THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-4055
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2016-4055

Moment vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
9.9%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
The duration function in the moment package before 2.11.2 for Node.js allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a long string, aka a "regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)."
Affected vendor
Momentjs
Affected product
Moment
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2017-01-23

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 9.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-4055

  • Confirm whether Momentjs Moment is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-4055.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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