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

CVE-2015-8858

Published

2017-01-23T21:59:00Z

Modified

2025-10-24T04:45:31Z

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:16.04:LTS / uglifyjs

Package

Name: uglifyjs
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/uglifyjs@2.4.15-5?arch=source&distro=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_name": "node-uglify",
            "binary_version": "2.4.15-5"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8858.json"