High

Regular Expression Denial of Service in content

  • Disclosed: 24.07.2018
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 10:22

Affected versions of content are vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when parsing malicious Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers.

Recommendation

Update to version 3.0.6 or later.

Affected software

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
npm package content < 3.0.7 3.0.7

References

CVSS score 7.5/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Platform
npm
Package
content
Disclosed
24.07.2018
Updated
11.10.2026 10:22

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-x6wp-rfwh-hcx7 - CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: content

All published vulnerabilities of this package (npm package), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

Total entries
2
First → latest
07.2018 09.2020
Without a fix
1
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • High 2

Disclosures per year

  1. 2018: 1
  2. 2019: 0
  3. 2020: 1
  4. 2021: 0
  5. 2022: 0
  6. 2023: 0
  7. 2024: 0
  8. 2025: 0
  9. 2026: 0
  1. High ghsa-5854-jvxx-2cg9 <= 4.0.6 no fix
  2. Regular Expression Denial of Service in content this entry
    High · 7.5 CVE-2017-16111 < 3.0.7 3.0.7

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