Candidate: CVE-2016-10540
PublicDate: 2018-05-31 20:29:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10540
 https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/118
Description:
 Minimatch is a minimal matching utility that works by converting glob
 expressions into JavaScript `RegExp` objects. The primary function,
 `minimatch(path, pattern)` in Minimatch 3.0.1 and earlier is vulnerable to
 ReDoS in the `pattern` parameter.
Ubuntu-Description:
 It was discovered that Minimatch did not perform necessary bounds checking on
 regular expressions. An attacker could use this vulnerability to cause a
 denial of service.
Notes:
Bugs:
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to: mikesalvatore
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]


Patches_node-minimatch:
 upstream: https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/6944abf9e0694bd22fd9dad293faa40c2bc8a955
upstream_node-minimatch: released (3.0.4)
precise/esm_node-minimatch: DNE
trusty_node-minimatch: ignored (out of standard support)
trusty/esm_node-minimatch: released (0.2.12-1ubuntu0.1~esm2)

xenial_node-minimatch: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)

artful_node-minimatch: ignored (reached end-of-life)
bionic_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
cosmic_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
disco_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
eoan_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
focal_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
groovy_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
hirsute_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
impish_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
jammy_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)
devel_node-minimatch: not-affected (3.0.4-3)