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Denial of Service in jquery

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 22, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 12, 2024

Package

nuget jQuery (NuGet)

Affected versions

= 3.0.0-rc.1

Patched versions

3.0.0
npm jquery (npm)
= 3.0.0-rc.1
3.0.0
bundler jquery-rails (RubyGems)
= 3.0.0-rc.1
3.0.0
maven org.webjars.npm:jquery (Maven)
= 3.0.0-rc.1
3.0.0

Description

Affected versions of jquery use a lowercasing logic on attribute names. When given a boolean attribute with a name that contains uppercase characters, jquery enters into an infinite recursion loop, exceeding the call stack limit, and resulting in a denial of service condition.

Recommendation

Update to version 3.0.0 or later.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 18, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 22, 2018
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Feb 12, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.198%
(57th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2016-10707

GHSA ID

GHSA-mhpp-875w-9cpv

Source code

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