UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8858

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8858
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8858.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8858
Upstream
Published
2017-01-23T21:59:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:43:31Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

The uglify-js package before 2.6.0 for Node.js allows attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via crafted input in a parse call, aka a "regular expression denial of service (ReDoS)."

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / uglifyjs

Package

Name
uglifyjs
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/uglifyjs@2.4.15-5?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*

2.4.15-4
2.4.15-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "2.4.15-5",
            "binary_name": "node-uglify"
        }
    ]
}