CVE-2018-13863

mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.019 · 80 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.94% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.07.5highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.06.9mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-185USCWE-400US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
mongodb js-bson0.5.0 → 1.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mongodb:js-bson:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm bson0.5.0 → 1.0.5osvUSpkg:npm/bson

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-8462-q7x7-g2x4js-bson vulnerable to REDoS2018-09-17ghsa · osvUS
The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2018-07-10modified 2026-06-17

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/commit/bd61c45157c53a1698ff23770160cf4783e9ea4a cnnvd
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:bson:20180225 cnnvd
https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/commit/bd61c45157c53a1698ff23770160cf4783e9ea4a enisa_euvd
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:bson:20180225 enisa_euvd
https://github.com/mongodb/js-bson/commit/bd61c45157c53a1698ff23770160cf4783e9ea4aPatchThird Party Advisorynvd
https://snyk.io/vuln/npm:bson:20180225ExploitTechnical DescriptionThird Party Advisorynvd

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