CVE-2017-16117: Slug Project Slug

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

slug is a module to slugify strings, even if they contain unicode. slug is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service is specially crafted untrusted input is passed as input. About 50k characters can block the event loop for 2 seconds.

Affected products

• Slug Project Slug: up to and including 0.9.1

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