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Denial-of-Service Extended Event Loop Blocking in qs

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 9, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm qs (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.0.0

Patched versions

1.0.0

Description

Versions prior to 1.0.0 of qs are affected by a denial of service vulnerability that results from excessive recursion in parsing a deeply nested JSON string.

Recommendation

Update to version 1.0.0 or later

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 9, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(41st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2014-10064

GHSA ID

GHSA-f9cm-p3w6-xvr3

Source code

No known source code
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