CVE-2017-16098: Charset Project Charset

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

charset 1.0.0 and below are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service. Input of around 50k characters is required for a slow down of around 2 seconds. Unless node was compiled using the -DHTTP_MAX_HEADER_SIZE= option the default header max length is 80kb, so the impact of the ReDoS is relatively low.

Affected products

• Charset Project Charset: before 1.0.1 (fixed in 1.0.1)

Published 2018-06-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.